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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493158703321

Autore

Kamrath Mark

Titolo

The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown [[electronic resource] ] : Radical History and the Early Republic / / Mark L. Kamrath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-21506-3

9786613215062

1-61277-549-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

813/.2

Soggetti

Literature and history - United States - History - 19th century

Historicism in literature

History in literature

Electronic books.

United States History Philosophy

United States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Remembering the past: European and colonial traditions; "Domestic history" and the Republican novel -- Part 2. Historiography and the "art of the historian": Historical representation in the Monthly magazine and American review and the Literary magazine and American register; The historical sketches-and "a government, ecclesiastical and civil"; Empire and the "annals of Europe" -- Part 3. The politics of history: American exceptionalism and the "annals of America"; constitutional limits-and "liberalism".