The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / / Steven Watts.
The Romance of Real Life shows how a sensitive, prolific writer confronted, wrestled with, and ultimately promoted the emergence of a liberal society in nineteenth-century America.
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Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages)) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Novel and the Market in the Early Republic
- 2. The Lawyer and the Rhapsodist
- 3. The Young Artist as Social Visionary
- 4. The Major Novels (I): Fiction and Fragmentation
- 5. The Major Novels (II): Deception and Disintegration
- 6. The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist
- 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego.