The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvPhilip Barnard,Hilary Emmett,Stephen Shapiro

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Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work.The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. The seven novels he published during his lifetime are now studied for their narrative complexity, innovations in genre, and social-political commentaries on life in early America and the revolutionary Atlantic. Through the late twentieth century, Brown was best known as an author of political romances in the gothic mode that proved to be widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel. This Handbook extends its focus beyond the well-known novels to address the full range of Brown's prolific literary career.The Handbook includes original essays on all of Brown's fiction and nonfiction writings, and offers new interpretations of the contexts of his work: from the literary, social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The thirty-five contributors in this volume speak in new ways about Brown's depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property relations, as well as colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, and women's rights. Brown's perspectives on American and global history, emerging modernity, selfhood and otherness, and other topics, are explained in comprehensible and up-to-date terms. In addition to opening up new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides the intellectual foundations needed to understand Brown's enduring impact and literary legacy.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-04
Mått259 x 180 x 39 mm
Vikt1 225 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Handbooks
Antal sidor608
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199860067

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Philip Barnard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. He has published editions of the four canonical romances of Charles Brockden Brown and is currently Textual Editor of the Brown electronic archive and Bucknell Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown edition. Hilary Emmett is Senior Lecturer in American Studies (Literature and Culture) in the Department of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. A member of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC), he has published more than 15 books and editions.

List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmet, and Stephen Shapiro I. Biography 1. Early Years, 1771-1795 Lisa West 2. Later Years, 1795-1810 Bryan Waterman II. Romances 3. Wieland; or, the Transformation of American Literary History Duncan Faherty 4. Ormond; or, The Secret Witness Nicholas E. Miller 5. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Michael J. Drexler 6. Felons and Fallacies: An Antipodean Edgar Huntly Hilary Emmett 7. Stephen Calvert's Unfinished Business Christopher Looby 8. Clara Howard; In a Series of Letters Philip Barnard 9. Jane Talbot, A Novel Stephen Shapiro III. The History-Fiction Nexus 10. History, Romance, and the Novel Gretchen J. Woertendyke 11. Historical Sketches Philip Barnard 12. Political Pamphlets Stephen Shapiro 13. "Annals of Europe and America" and Brown's Contribution to Early American Periodicals Mark L. Kamrath IV. Writings in Other Genres 14. Letters Elizabeth Hewitt 15. Poetry Michael C. Cohen 16. Short Fiction Scott Slawinski V) Politics and the World-System 17. Brown and the Woldwinites Abigail Smith Stocker 18. Brown and Women's Rights Fritz Fleischmann 19. Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in Brown Leonard von Morzé 20. Brown's Philadelphia Quaker Milieu Robert Battistini 21. Brown, the Illuminati, and the Public Sphere Anthony Galluzzo 22. Brown, Empire, and Colonialism Andy Doolen VI) The Body and Medical Knowledges 23. Brown and Physiology Stephen Rachman 24. Brown and Yellow Fever Scott Ellis 25. Brown and Sex Jordan Alexander Stein VII) Literary Forms, Aesthetics, and Culture 26. Brown's American Gothic Robert Miles 27. Brown, Sensibility, and Sentimentalism Michelle Burnham 28. Brown and the Novel in the Atlantic World Siân Silyn Roberts 29. Brown and Classicism Oliver Scheiding 30. Brown's Studies in Geography Martin Brückner 31. Brown, the Visual Arts, and Architecture Sarah Boyd VIII) Reception 32. Brown's Literary Afterlife Ezra Tawil 33. Brown's Early Biographers and Reception, 1815-1940s Michael A. Cody 34. Brown's Later Biographers and Reception, 1949-2s Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds 35. Brown Studies Now and in Transition Hannah Lauren Murray Index

...The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown is not so much a classroom textbook as a perfect university library resource that offers students and professional scholars alike accessible, scholarly discussion and analysis of all aspects of this major early American author's life and work...Read Charles Brockden Brown-or this wonderful and most timely handbook-today, better to understand the complexities, paradoxes, and ambiguities of polyphonic social, cultural, and political discourse tomorrow.