Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

by Robert S. Levine

Book Overview

Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093406
• ISBN13: 9780521093408
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"