| Description |
xiv, 242 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Charting the neutral ground: the historicity of fiction in Cooper's The spy -- Literalism and the New England mind: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland as American history -- Covenant, sacrifice, and the loss of Eden in the promised land: historical consciousness in Hawthorne's "Roger Malvin's burial" -- Type, antitype, and the burdens of history: the Akedian romance of America -- Spectral evidence of history: skepticism and faith in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" -- History's veil and the face of the past: acceptance and acknowledgment in Hawthorne's historical romances -- Redemption and renewal from the historical point of view: romance in the cinema House of the Seven Gables -- Reading Emerson: Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby and the romance of historical revision -- Sun also rises: Hemingway's new covenant of history -- Seeking the shores of self: E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and the moral fiction of history. |
| Subject |
Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, American. |
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Romanticism -- United States.
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Romanticism. |
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United States. |
| Indexed Term |
English fiction |
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Historical fiction |
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United States |
| ISBN |
0300042922 alkaline paper |
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9780300042924 alkaline paper |
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