Dreaming revolution :transgression in the development of American romance
- 作者: Bradfield, Scott.
- 出版: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press ©1993.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xiv, 125 pages).
- 標題: Influence européenne. , Roman américain Influence européenne. , Political and social views. , Electronic books. , Littérature et société , Romanticism , Romanticism. , Politique et littérature États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , Impérialisme dans la littérature. , Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism. , Edgar Huntly (Brown, Charles Brockden) , American fiction , Roman américain 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. , Littérature et société États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , American fiction. , Littérature révolutionnaire américaine Histoire et critique. , Political fiction, American , Literature and society , Social conflict in literature. , Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Political and social views. , History. , Godwin, William, 1756-1836. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Revolutionary literature, American. , Deviant behavior in literature. , History , Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Pensée politique et sociale. , Things as they are (Godwin, William) , Poe, Edgar Allan, , Romantisme , History and criticism. , Political fiction, American History and criticism. , Politics and literature , American fiction European influences. , Romanticism United States. , 1800-1899 , Revolutionary literature, American , United States. , Cooper, James Fenimore, , European influences. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Political fiction, American. , Romantisme États-Unis. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. , Histoire et critique. , Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Pensée politique et sociale. , Politics and literature. , Imperialism in literature. , Roman américain , Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. , Brown, Charles Brockden, , Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. , AmericanGeneral. , Histoire , Politique et littérature , Pensée politique et sociale. , Literature and society United States -- History -- 19th century. , Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Political and social views. , Littérature révolutionnaire américaine , Conflits sociaux dans la littérature. , Literature and society. , Politics and literature United States -- History -- 19th century. , Godwin, William, , American fiction 19th century -- History and criticism.
- ISBN: 1587290324 , 9781587290329
- ISBN: 0877453950 , 9780877453956
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-122) and index. The whole truth : Caleb Williams and the transgression of class -- The great sea-change : Edgar Huntly and the transgression of space -- James Fenimore Cooper and the return of the king -- Edgar Allan Poe and the exaltation of form.
- 摘要: Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical theory to address how the European novel of class revolt was transformed into the American novel of imperial expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe - can and should be considered as part of a genre too often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel. Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself as a means of establishing Political consensus. For European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the tyranny of the king must be replaced by the more indisputable authority of human reason. In other words, democratic revolution makes people free to investigate the same truths and arrive at the same democratic conclusions. In the American novel, however, the Enlightenment's idealized pursuit of abstract truth becomes restructured as a pursuit of abstract space. Instead of revealing knowledge, Americans explore further territories, manifest destiny, limitless regions of the yet-to-be-colonized and the still-to-be-known. In a spirited discussion of works by Brown, Cooper and Poe, Bradfield argues that Americans take the class dynamics of the European psychological novel and apply them to the American landscape, reimagining psychological spaces as geographical ones. Class distinctions become refigured in terms of the common people's pursuit of a meaning vaster than themselves - a meaning which leads them to imagine the always expanding body of colonial America. However, since class conflict is never successfully eliminated or forgotten, the memory of class struggle always reemerges in the narrative like a half-repressed dream of politics. In Dreaming Revolution, Bradfield reveals and interprets these dreams, opening these American novels to a richer and more rewarding reading.
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Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical theory to address how the European novel of class revolt was transformed into the American novel of imperial expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe - can and should be considered as part of a genre too often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel. Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself as a means of establishing Political consensus. For European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the tyranny of the king must be replaced by the more indisputable authority of human reason. In other words, democratic revolution makes people free to investigate the same truths and arrive at the same democratic conclusions. In the American novel, however, the Enlightenment's idealized pursuit of abstract truth becomes restructured as a pursuit of abstract space. Instead of revealing knowledge, Americans explore further territories, manifest destiny, limitless regions of the yet-to-be-colonized and the still-to-be-known. In a spirited discussion of works by Brown, Cooper and Poe, Bradfield argues that Americans take the class dynamics of the European psychological novel and apply them to the American landscape, reimagining psychological spaces as geographical ones. Class distinctions become refigured in terms of the common people's pursuit of a meaning vaster than themselves - a meaning which leads them to imagine the always expanding body of colonial America. However, since class conflict is never successfully eliminated or forgotten, the memory of class struggle always reemerges in the narrative like a half-repressed dream of politics. In Dreaming Revolution, Bradfield reveals and interprets these dreams, opening these American novels to a richer and more rewarding reading.
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