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The American Historical Romance

By George Dekker

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0521389372, 0521332826, 051155382X, 9780511553820, 9780521332828, 9780521389372
LCC
PS374.H5 D45 1987
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2668623 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Pages
384\384
Topic
History
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history, the rise of literary regionalism, the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance, changing gender roles, and individual authors' troubled responses to the modern era's great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts. Though concerned with the historical romance's development, Dekker devotes most of this book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Allen Tate, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner, as well as to the Briton whose name is synonymous with the genre, Sir Walter Scott.

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