The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / / Steven Watts

• Autore: Watts Steven <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages))
• Disciplina: B; 813/.2
• Soggetto topico: Cultuur; Romanticism; Novelists, American; National characteristics, American, in literature; Civilization; Authorship; Authors and readers; Romanticism - United States; Authorship - History - 18th century; Novelists, American - 18th century; Authors and readers - United States - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States; United States Civilization 1783-1865
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Biographies.; Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: United States; English fiction
• Note generali: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.; Watts 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.; His notoriously volatile private life, it turns out, in many ways flowed from a critique of market society and its impulses.; Offering 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.; Among 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Romance of Real Life
• ISBN: 1-4214-3602-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524844103321
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