The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System

by Stephen Shapiro

Book Overview

Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's Annals of Europe and America , which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, Stephen Shapiro charts the advent, decline, and reinvigoration of the early American novel. That the American novel "sprang so unexpectedly into published existence during the 1790s" may be a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271032901
• ISBN13: 9780271032900
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"