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100 1 Bradfield, Scott.
245 10 Dreaming revolution :|btransgression in the development of
American romance /|cScott Bradfield.
264 1 Iowa City :|bUniversity of Iowa Press,|c[1993]
264 4 |c©1993
300 1 online resource (xiv, 125 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-122) and
index.
505 0 The whole truth : Caleb Williams and the transgression of
class -- The great sea-change : Edgar Huntly and the
transgression of space -- James Fenimore Cooper and the
return of the king -- Edgar Allan Poe and the exaltation
of form.
506 |3Use copy|fRestrictions unspecified|2star|5MiAaHDL
520 Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical
theory to address how the European novel of class revolt
was transformed into the American novel of imperial
expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic
fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles
Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe
- can and should be considered as part of a genre too
often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel.
Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield
describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself
as a means of establishing Political consensus. For
European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the
tyranny of the king must be replaced by the more
indisputable authority of human reason. In other words,
democratic revolution makes people free to investigate the
same truths and arrive at the same democratic conclusions.
In the American novel, however, the Enlightenment's
idealized pursuit of abstract truth becomes restructured
as a pursuit of abstract space. Instead of revealing
knowledge, Americans explore further territories, manifest
destiny, limitless regions of the yet-to-be-colonized and
the still-to-be-known. In a spirited discussion of works
by Brown, Cooper and Poe, Bradfield argues that Americans
take the class dynamics of the European psychological
novel and apply them to the American landscape,
reimagining psychological spaces as geographical ones.
Class distinctions become refigured in terms of the common
people's pursuit of a meaning vaster than themselves - a
meaning which leads them to imagine the always expanding
body of colonial America. However, since class conflict is
never successfully eliminated or forgotten, the memory of
class struggle always reemerges in the narrative like a
half-repressed dream of politics. In Dreaming Revolution,
Bradfield reveals and interprets these dreams, opening
these American novels to a richer and more rewarding
reading.
533 Electronic reproduction.|b[S.l.] :|cHathiTrust Digital
Library,|d2010.|5MiAaHDL
538 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to
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588 0 Print version record.
600 10 Cooper, James Fenimore,|d1789-1851|xPolitical and social
views.
600 10 Poe, Edgar Allan,|d1809-1849|xPolitical and social views.
600 10 Brown, Charles Brockden,|d1771-1810.|tEdgar Huntly.
600 10 Godwin, William,|d1756-1836.|tThings as they are.
600 10 Cooper, James Fenimore,|d1789-1851.
600 10 Poe, Edgar Allan,|d1809-1849.
600 10 Brown, Charles Brockden,|d1771-1810.
600 10 Godwin, William,|d1756-1836.
600 17 Cooper, James Fenimore,|d1789-1851.|2fast
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600 17 Poe, Edgar Allan,|d1809-1849.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00032674
630 07 Edgar Huntly (Brown, Charles Brockden)|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst01913246
630 07 Things as they are (Godwin, William)|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst01359834
648 7 1800 - 1899|2fast
650 0 American fiction|y19th century|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 Politics and literature|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th
century.
650 0 Literature and society|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th
century.
650 0 Revolutionary literature, American|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 Political fiction, American|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 American fiction|xEuropean influences.
650 0 Deviant behavior in literature.
650 0 Social conflict in literature.
650 0 Romanticism|zUnited States.
650 0 Imperialism in literature.
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xAmerican|xGeneral.|2bisacsh
650 7 American fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00807048
650 7 American fiction|xEuropean influences.|2fast
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650 7 Deviant behavior in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00891966
650 7 Imperialism in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00968142
650 7 Literature and society.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01000096
650 7 Political and social views.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01353986
650 7 Political fiction, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069300
650 7 Politics and literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069960
650 7 Revolutionary literature, American.|2fast
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650 7 Romanticism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01100133
650 7 Social conflict in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01122407
651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 |iPrint version:|aBradfield, Scott.|tDreaming revolution.
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