Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions

by Cynthia Jordan

Second Stories offers an innovative reexamination of selected texts by major figures in American literature: Benjamin Franklin, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Bown from the early national period, and James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Alan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville from the romantic period. Combining close reading with a powerful ideological argument, Cynthia Jordan demonstrates that a concern with the patriarchal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865516
• ISBN13: 9780807865514
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"