Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of
nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the
conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial
interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of
Britain's diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer
argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukacs had in
mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after
Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of
writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles
Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the
conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the
nineteenth-century "romance" hero through a number of
proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history,
including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated
court case of James Annesley, among others. The author argues that
popular Romantic novels such as Scott's Waverley and Cooper's The
Pioneers convert the problem of narrating the political geographies
of eighteenth-century Empire into a discourse of history, placing
the historical realities of negotiating Imperial authority at the
heart of a nineteenth-century project that fictionalized the
possibilities and limits of political historical agency in the
modern nation state.
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