The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture

by Steven Watts

Book Overview

Among the leading writers of the early republic, Charles Brockden Brown often appears as a romantic prototype--the brilliant, alienated author rejected by a utilitarian, materialistic American society. In The Romance of Real Life Steven Watts reinterprets Brown's life and work as a complex case study in the emerging culture of capitalism at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Offering a revisionist view of Brown himself, Watts examines the major novels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846862
• ISBN13: 9780801846861
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher