Robert S. Levine, Levine Robert S.

Conspiracy and Romance

Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521093408
• ISBN-10: 0521093406
• Artikelnr.: 25448203

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'The defencelessness of her condition': Villainy and Vulnerability in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond
2. 'Souless Corporation
: Oligarchy and the Countersubversive Presence in James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo
3. 'A confusion of popish and protestant emblems': Insiders and Outsiders in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance
4. 'Follow you Leader': Captains and Mutineers in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
Epilogue
Notes
Index.