Peter Kafer

Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic

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Produktbeschreibung

"Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic" illuminates the social and political influences on the nation's first professional novelist and reveals the surprising origins of one of American literature's most popular and enduring genres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780812237863
• ISBN-10: 0812237862
• Artikelnr.: 21259140

Autorenporträt

Peter Kafer, a writer who lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, earned his Ph.D. degree in history from The Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Prologue: Philadelphia, Summer 1777-Summer 1778: "the Horrors of the night"
PART I: FACTS AND FICTIONS, 1650-1798
Chapter 1: Children of the Light, 1650s-1777
Chapter 2: From Terror to Terror to Terror, 1777-1793
Chapter 3: Revolutionary Reverberations, 1793-1798
Interlude: Philadelphia, 1795-1799: "renderings in the bowels of nations"
PART II: FICTIONS AND FACTS, 1798-1800
Chapter 4: Sins of Fathers
Chapter 5: The Anti-Godwin
Chapter 6: The Return of the Present and Past
PART III: A LIE, 1800-1804
Conclusion: Charles Brown, American
Epilogue: Brockden Brown and the American Gothic Tradition
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments