The American Historical Romanc

by George Dekker

Book Overview

Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history, the rise of literary regionalism, the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance, changing gender roles, and individual authors' troubled responses to the modern era's great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts. Though concerned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521332826
• ISBN13: 9780521332828
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"