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Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elementsFrench revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slavesare central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, ...

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History Literature United States History Literary Criticism United States History - General & Miscellaneous American Literature Literary Movements General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism United States History - General & Miscellaneous General & Miscellaneous American Literature - Literary Criticism Romanticism - Literary Movements Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous 19th Century American Literature - Literary Criticism Romanticism (Literature)->United States Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)->Criticism and interpretation

Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

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