The Romance of Real Life Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture

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Tác giả: Steven Watts

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 1421436043

ISBN-13: 978-1421436036

ISBN-13: 978-1421436043

Ký hiệu phân loại: 813.2 American fiction in English

Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource xviii, 246 pages)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 196357

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. 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. 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
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