| The American Historical Romance Contributor(s): Dekker, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521389372 ISBN-13: 9780521389372 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 1990 Annotation: 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. Click for more in this series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.081 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.96" W x 8.87" L (1.19 lbs) 388 pages |
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