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The historicism of Charles Brockden Brown : radical history and the early republic /

A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped shape some of America?s greatest writers, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kamrath, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Remembering the past. European and colonial traditions; "Domestic history" and the Republican novel
  • Part 2. Historiography and the "art of the historian." Historical representation in the Monthly magazine and American review and the Literary magazine and American register; The historical sketches-and "a government, ecclesiastical and civil"; Empire and the "annals of Europe"
  • Part 3. The politics of history. American exceptionalism and the "annals of America"; Constitutional limits-and "liberalism."