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The American Historical Romance (Paperback, 1st paperback ed)
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The American Historical Romance (Paperback, 1st paperback ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from
its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War
II. It examines the historical novel's connections with
Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of
literary regionalism; with the ambitions of Romantic writers to
revive the epic and romance; with changing conceptions of gender
roles; and with the authors' troubled responses to the great
revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts of the modern era.
However, though inevitably much concerned with the theory of genre
and with the specific contents of the genre of historical romance,
Professor Dekker devotes most of his book to new readings of major
texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman
Melville, Mark Twain, Allen Tate, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and
William Faulkner, as well as to the Briton whose name was
synonymous with the genre for most of the nineteenth century - Sir
Walter Scott. 'The American Historical Romance is the richest, most
fully meditated and most rewarding yet written by this author ...
It is the most important book on the relations of British and
American fiction to come out for many years. No devotee of the
American novel will ignore it.' -- The Times Literary Supplement
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