Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
ISBN: 9780823255177
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Literature -- Philosophy -- History;

Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.

Lilley James D. :

James D. Lilley is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is editor of Cormac McCarthy: New Directions.


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