Erik Simpson

Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830

Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money

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Produktbeschreibung

Erik Simpson calls attention to the mercenary in romantic literature and uncovers his significance within American and European contexts. The mercenary of popular imagination disregards patriotic feeling in favor of whichever commander pays best. Like the slave, the mercenary obeys a master with no claim to national, religious, or familial affiliation, and his choice to serve an alien master (often by crossing the Atlantic) stands at once for an overindulgence of freedom and the failure to appreciate its value. Simpson's primary research underpins a suggestive metaphorical and symbolic argument based on writings by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Charlotte Smith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780748636440
• ISBN-10: 0748636447
• Artikelnr.: 28176818

Autorenporträt

is an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College and the author of Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mercenary
Contractor
Volunteer
Slave; 1. Ormond's Fighters: Authorship
Soldiering
and the Transatlantic Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Encountering the Mercenary: Native American Auxiliaries
the American Revolution
and Charlotte Smith; 3. 'A Good One though Rather for the Foreign Market': Walter Scott
Lord Byron
and the Romantic Mercenary; 4. Loyalty
Independence
and James Fenimore Cooper's Revolution; 5. The Bravos of Venice; Epilogue: Mercenaries and the Modern Military; Works Cited; Index.