Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830 : : Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money /

Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830 : : Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money / / Erik Simpson.

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In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mer...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Simpson, Erik,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: MERCENARY, CONTRACTOR, VOLUNTEER, SLAVE
  • Chapter 1 ORMOND’S FIGHTERS: AUTHORSHIP, SOLDIERING, AND THE TRANSATLANTIC CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
  • Chapter 2 ENCOUNTERING THE MERCENARY: NATIVE AMERICAN AUXILIARIES, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND CHARLOTTE SMITH
  • Chapter 3 ‘A GOOD ONE THOUGH RATHER FOR THE FOREIGN MARKET’: WALTER SCOTT, LORD BYRON, AND THE ROMANTIC MERCENARY
  • Chapter 4 LOYALTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND JAMES FENIMORE COOPER’S REVOLUTION
  • Chapter 5 THE BRAVOS OF VENICE
  • EPILOGUE: MERCENARIES AND THE MODERN MILITARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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