Common Things : Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity.
Title:
Common Things : Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity.
Author:
Lilley, James D.
ISBN:
9780823255184
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Series:
Commonalities
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Genre -- 2 Feeling -- 3 Property/Personhood -- 4 Event/Hiatus -- 5 No Thing in Common -- N otes -- Index.
Abstract:
Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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