Mythology - General & Miscellaneous, Romanticism - Literary Movements, Politics & Literature, Fiction Writing, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Democracies & R
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Overview
Nineteenth-century American romance, as a genre, is defined by the writings of a particular group of authors - James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James - all of whom are associated with one another in time and place. In this volume, Emily Miller Budick examines the genre both as a style and within a historical context. She interprets American romance as an evolving literary aesthetic and cultural philosophy - as an effort by a group of writers to produce what Noah Webster called an "American tongue," a language imbued with the values of democracy and pluralism.Book Details
Published
October 22, 1997
Publisher
New York : Twayne Publishers ; c1996.
Pages
186
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780805709605