LEADER 04794oam 22008294a 450 001 9910524844103321 005 20210915045434.0 010 $a1-4214-3602-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460908 035 $a(OCoLC)1127293564 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78515 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460908 100 $a20191112h20191994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Romance of Real Life$eCharles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture /$fSteven Watts 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages)) 300 $aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. 300 $aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License 311 $a1-4214-3603-5 311 $a1-4214-3604-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index. 327 $a1. The Novel and the Market in the Early Republic -- 2. The Lawyer and the Rhapsodist -- 3. The Young Artist as Social Visionary -- 4. The Major Novels (I): Fiction and Fragmentation -- 5. The Major Novels (II): Deception and Disintegration -- 6. The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist -- 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego. 330 8 $aThe Romance of Real Life shows how a sensitive, prolific writer confronted, wrestled with, and ultimately promoted the emergence of a liberal society in nineteenth-century America. 330 8 $aWatts also shows how Brown's experience was central to broader developments: the rise of the novel in America, the development of gender and family formulations, the clash between republican "virtue" and liberal "self-interest," and the origins of a bourgeois creed of self-control. Perhaps most importantly, he explains how Brown helped articulate a notion of "culture" itself as a civilizing force to restrain restless liberal individualism. 330 8 $aHis notoriously volatile private life, it turns out, in many ways flowed from a critique of market society and its impulses. 330 8 $aOffering a revisionist view of Brown himself, Watts examines the major novels of the 1790s as well as previously neglected sources - from early essays and private letters to late-career forays into journalism, political pamphleteering, serial fiction, and cultural criticism. The result is a fuller picture of Brown as a man of letters in post-Revolutionary America, a man who rigorously analyzed the public and private vagaries of individual agency. 330 $aAmong the leading writers of the early republic, Charles Brockden Brown often appears as a romantic prototype - the brilliant, alienated author rejected by a utilitarian, materialistic American society. In The Romance of Real Life Steven Watts reinterprets Brown's life and work as a complex case study in the emerging culture of capitalism at the dawn of the nineteenth century. 606 $aCultuur$2gtt 606 $aRomanticism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01100133 606 $aNovelists, American$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01039688 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01033350 606 $aCivilization$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00862898 606 $aAuthorship$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00822442 606 $aAuthors and readers$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00821738 606 $aRomanticism$zUnited States 606 $aAuthorship$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aNovelists, American$y18th century$vBiography 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aAuthors and readers$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aUnited States$2fast 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1783-1865 608 $aHistory. 608 $aBiographies. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 0 $aUnited States 610 0 $aEnglish fiction 615 10$aCultuur. 615 0$aRomanticism. 615 0$aNovelists, American. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aCivilization. 615 0$aAuthorship. 615 0$aAuthors and readers. 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aAuthorship$xHistory 615 0$aNovelists, American 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aAuthors and readers$xHistory 676 $aB 676 $a813/.2 700 $aWatts$b Steven$f1952-$01139446 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524844103321 996 $aThe Romance of Real Life$92676736 997 $aUNINA