The romance of real life : Charles Brockden Brown and the origins of American culture

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The romance of real life : Charles Brockden Brown and the origins of American culture

Steven Watts

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994

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"Bibliographic essay": p. 225-241

Includes index

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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 case study in the emerging culture of capitalism at the dawn of the 19th century. 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 later career forays into journalism, political pamphleteering, serial fiction and cultural criticism. The result is a picture of Brown as a man of letters in post-Revolutionary America, a man who analyzed the public and private vagaries of individual agency. His notoriously volatile private life, it is suggested, in many ways flowed from a critique of market society and its impulses. Watts also aims to show 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.

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

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