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_aThe Romance of Real Life _bCharles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / _cSteven Watts. |
| 300 | _a1 online resource (1 online resource xviii, 246 pages) | ||
| 500 | _aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. | ||
| 500 | _aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _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. | |
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| 520 | 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. | |
| 520 | 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. | |
| 520 | 8 | _aHis notoriously volatile private life, it turns out, in many ways flowed from a critique of market society and its impulses. | |
| 520 | 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. | |
| 520 | _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. | ||
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