The Romance of Real Life Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / Steven Watts. [print]

By: Watts, Steven, 1952- [author]Contributor(s): Project Muse | Project Muse []Material type: Text

TextDescription: 1 online resource (1 online resource xviii, 246 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421436043Subject(s): Brown, Charles Brockden | Cultuur | Novelists, American | National characteristics, American, in literature | Civilization | Authorship | Romanticism -- United States | Authorship -- History -- 18th century | Novelists, American -- 18th century -- Biography | National characteristics, American, in literature | Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 18th century | United States | United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865 | United States | English fictionGenre/Form: History. | Biographies. | Electronic books. LOC classification: PS1136PS1136.W353.R663 2019Online resources: Click here to access online COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission: https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

Contents:

1. The Novel and the Market in the Early Republic 2. The Lawyer and the Rhapsodist 3. The Young Artist as Social Visionary 4. The Major Novels (I): Fiction and Fragmentation 5. The Major Novels (II): Deception and Disintegration 6. The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego.

Summary: The Romance of Real Life shows how a sensitive, prolific writer confronted, wrestled with, and ultimately promoted the emergence of a liberal society in nineteenth-century America.Summary: Watts also shows how Brown's experience was central to broader developments: the rise of the novel in America, the development of gender and family formulations, the clash between republican "virtue" and liberal "self-interest," and the origins of a bourgeois creed of self-control. Perhaps most importantly, he explains how Brown helped articulate a notion of "culture" itself as a civilizing force to restrain restless liberal individualism.Summary: His notoriously volatile private life, it turns out, in many ways flowed from a critique of market society and its impulses.Summary: Offering a revisionist view of Brown himself, Watts examines the major novels of the 1790s as well as previously neglected sources - from early essays and private letters to late-career forays into journalism, political pamphleteering, serial fiction, and cultural criticism. The result is a fuller picture of Brown as a man of letters in post-Revolutionary America, a man who rigorously analyzed the public and private vagaries of individual agency.Summary: 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.

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The Romance of Real Life shows how a sensitive, prolific writer confronted, wrestled with, and ultimately promoted the emergence of a liberal society in nineteenth-century America.

Watts also shows how Brown's experience was central to broader developments: the rise of the novel in America, the development of gender and family formulations, the clash between republican "virtue" and liberal "self-interest," and the origins of a bourgeois creed of self-control. Perhaps most importantly, he explains how Brown helped articulate a notion of "culture" itself as a civilizing force to restrain restless liberal individualism.

His notoriously volatile private life, it turns out, in many ways flowed from a critique of market society and its impulses.

Offering a revisionist view of Brown himself, Watts examines the major novels of the 1790s as well as previously neglected sources - from early essays and private letters to late-career forays into journalism, political pamphleteering, serial fiction, and cultural criticism. The result is a fuller picture of Brown as a man of letters in post-Revolutionary America, a man who rigorously analyzed the public and private vagaries of individual agency.

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.

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