1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975162803321

Autore

Brown Charles Brockden <1771-1810.>

Titolo

Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1793 : first and second parts / / by Charles Brockden Brown ; edited by Sydney J. Krause and S.W. Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-61277-331-1

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (492 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KrauseSydney J (Sydney Joseph)

ReidS. W

Disciplina

813/.2

Soggetti

Murderers

Yellow fever

Young men

Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-479).

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Arthur Mervyn, First Part""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter I ""; ""Chapter II ""; ""Chapter III ""; ""Chapter IV ""; ""Chapter V ""; ""Chapter VI ""; ""Chapter VII ""; ""Chapter VIII ""; ""Chapter IX ""; ""Chapter X ""; ""Chapter XI ""; ""Chapter XII ""; ""Chapter XIII ""; ""Chapter XIV ""; ""Chapter XV ""; ""Chapter XVI ""; ""Chapter XVII ""; ""Chapter XVIII ""; ""Chapter XIX ""; ""Chapter XX ""; ""Chapter XXI ""; ""Chapter XXII ""; ""Chapter XXIII ""; ""Arthur Mervyn, Second Part""; ""Chapter I ""; ""Chapter II ""; ""Chapter III ""; ""Chapter IV ""

""Chapter V """"Chapter VI ""; ""Chapter VII ""; ""Chapter VIII ""; ""Chapter IX ""; ""Chapter X ""; ""Chapter XI ""; ""Chapter XII ""; ""Chapter XIII ""; ""Chapter XIV ""; ""Chapter XV ""; ""Chapter XVI ""; ""Chapter XVII ""; ""Chapter XVIII ""; ""Chapter XIX ""; ""Chapter XX ""; ""Chapter XXI ""; ""Chapter XXII ""; ""Chapter XXIII ""; ""Chapter XXIV ""; ""Chapter XXV ""; ""Introduction to the Historical Essay""; ""Historical Essay by Norman S. Grabo""; ""Selected Bibliography""

Sommario/riassunto

Arthur Mervyn has long puzzled students and scholars with its seeming diffuseness, resulting from its original serial publication. Critics agree, however, that the power of this novel lies not so much in its portrait of " right virtue, " which was Brown's primary aim, as in its realistic



descriptions of the yellow fever epidemic and the ensuing panic that swept Philadelphia in the summer of 1793. The ambiguities of Arthur Mervyn's character and the precarious nature of the revolutionary 1790s make this novel a particularly apt subject for lively discussion and future scholarship and make this revised edition an excellent classroom text.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960579303321

Autore

McRobbie Angela

Titolo

Postmodernism and popular culture / / Angela McRobbie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

0-203-16833-X

0-415-07712-5

0-521-46598-2

1-134-90086-4

1-134-90087-2

1-280-07499-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p. ) : 10 b/w illus

Disciplina

700/.9/045

Soggetti

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Popular culture

Postmodernism - Political aspects

Postmodernism - Social aspects

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

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Modernism in Conflict: 1. Architectural modernism; 2. Literary modernism; 3. Modernism versus popular literature; 4. The Frankfurt School versus Walter Benjamin; 5. Flowering of an orthodoxy; 6. Myths of origin; 1970's screen theory and literary history; Part II. Modernism and Postmodernism: 7. Architectural postmodernism: learning from Las Vegas; 8. From Las Vegas to Sydney; 9. Are we living in a Postmodern Age?; 10. Mapping Frederic Jameson's grand narrative; 11. From structuralism to postructuralism: Derrida; 12.



Cultural studies; Transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism; Part III. Carnival: 13. Bakhtin's carnival; 14. Dilemmas of a world upside down; 15. Fools: carnival-theatre-Vaudeville-television; 16. Fool, trickster, social explorer - the detective; 17. Crime fiction as a changing genre; 18. Melodrama, farce, soap opera; 19. Melodrama in action: Prisoner or Cell Block H; Conclusion: Carnival and contemporary popular culture; Notes; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An intellectual adventure, this book engages with some of the most important academic debates of our time.