The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / / Steven Watts.

• Author: Watts, Steven, 1952-
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages))
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

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.

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.