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Book Synopsis
The first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American writer."

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on Texts and References
  • Introduction
  • I. Irreconcilable Oppositions
  • II. Metaphysic Wilderness
  • III. New World Genesis, or the Old Transformed
  • IV. Great Plans: A Foreword to Ormond and Arthur Mervyn
  • V. Utopian Romance
  • VI. The Rise of Arthur Mervyn
  • VII. From Oedipus to Faust: An American Tale
  • Notes
  • Index

Charles Brockden Brown An American Tale

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1983
      ISBN13: 9780292729544, 978-0292729544
      ISBN10: 0292729545

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American writer."

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • A Note on Texts and References
      • Introduction
      • I. Irreconcilable Oppositions
      • II. Metaphysic Wilderness
      • III. New World Genesis, or the Old Transformed
      • IV. Great Plans: A Foreword to Ormond and Arthur Mervyn
      • V. Utopian Romance
      • VI. The Rise of Arthur Mervyn
      • VII. From Oedipus to Faust: An American Tale
      • Notes
      • Index

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