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Nineteenth-century American romance : genre and the construction of democratic culture / Emily Miller Budick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budick, E. Miller.
- Series:
- Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 8.
- Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Romanticism--United States.
- Romanticism.
- United States.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Democracy in literature.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Myth in literature.
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 186 pages ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- 19th-century American romance
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1996]
- Summary:
- Nineteenth-century American romance, as a genre, is defined by the writings of a particular group of authors - James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James - all of whom are associated with one another in time and place. In this volume, Emily Miller Budick examines the genre both as a style and within a historical context. She interprets American romance as an evolving literary aesthetic and cultural philosophy - as an effort by a group of writers to produce what Noah Webster called an "American tongue", a language imbued with the values of democracy and pluralism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-173) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0805709606
- OCLC:
- 34876040
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