{"product_id":"the-culture-and-commerce-of-the-early-american-novel-9780271032917","title":"The Culture and Commerce of the Early American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking the cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's \"Annals of Europe and America\", which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, this work charts the advent, decline, and reinvigoration of the early American novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shapiro offers a powerfully synthesized reexamination of the early American novel.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—A. T. Hale \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shapiro develops a stunning reconceptualization of the 1790s based on America’s position in Atlantic history at the end of the eighteenth century and an equally impressive analysis of what this reconceptualization means for our understanding of early American literature and culture.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Michelle Burnham \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As scholars such as Franco Moretti and Rodrigo Lazo encourage us to identify and expand the vast uncharted archives of novels that would necessarily alter our theories of the genre, Shapiro’s analysis reminds us that sometimes, just a few novels will do. His study paves the way, particularly for critics of sentimental, seduction, and popular fiction of the late eighteenth century, toward far richer accounts of how fictional forms function in the interstices between the early U.S. nation-state and the geo-economic, cultural, and political conditions of the American hemispheric context.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Gretchen J. Woertendyke \u003ci\u003eHuntington Library Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shapiro’s [work] squarely and massively dissects market ideology. . . . [It] is what Harold Bloom would call a \u003ci\u003estrong\u003c\/i\u003e reading, with all the risks and benefits that boldness implies. . . . Shapiro reduces the era’s economic influences to an alliterative quartet—sensibility, sensational consumption, slavery, and sentiment. Although these terms have long been associated with eighteenth-century culture, their combination in a kind of social compound—a geoculture—is particularly powerful here. . . . \u003ci\u003eCulture and Commerce\u003c\/i\u003e is a massive, often brilliant, utterly original synthesis exposing important elements of the period’s structure of feeling.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Joseph Fichtelberg \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCulture and Commerce\u003c\/i\u003e is a massive, often brilliant, utterly original synthesis exposing important elements of the period’s structure of feeling.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Joseph Fichtelberg \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shapiro’s theory of the early American novel—grounded in the cultural realities of the historical moment and informed by an economic theory that thinks beyond the nation-state—is compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Betsy Klimasmith \u003ci\u003eEighteenth Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Shapiro provides a compelling account of the emergence of the American novel as a cultural form deeply implicated within the global economic transitions of the 1790s. While the novel in the new United States is the ostensible focus of this book, Shapiro skillfully moves through an account of the economic, social, and intellectual worlds of the late eighteenth century to situate the cultural work of this literary form.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Adam C. Lewis \u003ci\u003eResources for American Literary Study\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shapiro’s meaty introduction similarly engages broad questions of method, periodization, and geography. He also gives his readers a very clear understanding of his methodology, intervention in, and vision for the future of, American literary scholarship.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—gretchen j. woertendyke \u003ci\u003eHuntington Library Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tMethod and Misperception: The Paradigm Problem of the Early American Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tThe Geoculture of the Anglo-French Eighteenth-Century World-System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tThe Re-export Republic and the Rise of the Early American Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tThe Paradox of the Public Sphere: Franklin’s \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e and the Institution of Ideology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\t\u003ci\u003eWieland\u003c\/i\u003e and the Problem of Counterinstitutionality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\t\u003ci\u003eArthur Mervyn\u003c\/i\u003e and the Racial Revolution of Narrative Consciousness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Early Nineteenth-Century American Studies and the World-Systems Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534929101143,"sku":"9780271032917","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271032917.jpg?v=1755858111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-culture-and-commerce-of-the-early-american-novel-9780271032917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}