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Founded in Fiction - The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States (Hardcover)
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Founded in Fiction - The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States (Hardcover)
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An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction
in the early American republic-one that challenges the "rise of the
novel" narrative What is the use of fiction? This question
preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural
authorities insisted that fiction-reading would mislead readers
about reality. Founded in Fiction argues that this suspicion made
early American writers especially attuned to one of fiction's
defining but often overlooked features-its fictionality. Thomas
Koenigs shows how these writers explored the unique types of
speculative knowledge that fiction could create as they sought to
harness different varieties of fiction for a range of social and
political projects. Spanning the years 1789-1861, Founded in
Fiction challenges the "rise of novel" narrative that has long
dominated the study of American fiction by highlighting how many of
the texts that have often been considered the earliest American
novels actually defined themselves in contrast to the novel. Their
writers developed self-consciously extranovelistic varieties of
fiction, as they attempted to reform political discourse, shape
women's behavior, reconstruct a national past, and advance social
criticism. Ambitious in scope, Founded in Fiction features original
discussions of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known writers,
including Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden
Brown, Leonora Sansay, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe,
Robert Montgomery Bird, George Lippard, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. By reframing the history of
the novel in the United States as a history of competing varieties
of fiction, Founded in Fiction shows how these fictions structured
American thinking about issues ranging from national politics to
gendered authority to the intimate violence of slavery.
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