The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture - Hopkins Open Publishing Encore Editions

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.

ISBN:	9781421436029
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Published date:	01 Dec 2019
DEWEY:	813.2
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xviii, 246
Weight:	418g
Height:	151mm
Width:	230mm
Spine width:	14mm

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