Conspiracy and Romance

Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

By:

Robert S Levine

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements - French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves - are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are examined by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatised the same conflicts and ideals which gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived 'America' as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the historical conditions of the culture. The fear that reputed conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread: Levine argues that these fears informed the works of major romance writers from the turn of the century until the Civil War.

Release date Australia

September 29th, 1989

Author

Robert S Levine

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

316

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x228x19

ISBN-13

9780521366540

Product ID

3997560

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