The Romance of Real Life
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The Romance of Real Life

Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture

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eBook - ePub

The Romance of Real Life

Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture

About this book

Originally published in 1994. The Romance of Real Life aims to reconstruct historically the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown in terms of their cultural connection. Watts examines in detail Brown's early and later writings. By looking at these often-neglected works more closely, he offers a new perspective on the well-known novels from the late 1790s. Watts's synthetic look at genre as well as chronology reveals broader connections between Brown's literature and American society and culture in the decades of the early republic. Furthermore, Watts situates Brown's writings in terms of the interplay of text, context, and the self, with each factor recognized as mutually shaping the others. The Romance of Real Life incorporates sensitivity to the "social history of ideas," in which both the form and content of language remain rooted in the material experience of real life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. The Novel and the Market in the Early Republic
  11. 2. The Lawyer and the Rhapsodist
  12. 3. The Young Artist as Social Visionary
  13. 4. The Major Novels (I): Fiction and Fragmentation
  14. 5. The Major Novels (II): Deception and Disintegration
  15. 6. The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist
  16. 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliographic Essay
  19. Index