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Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic moral romance : little histories and neutral territories
- Title
- Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic moral romance : little histories and neutral territories / by Ben P. Robertson.
- Author
- Robertson, Ben P. (Ben Preston)
- Publication
- London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
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- Description
- x, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This study explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). Inchbald sought to legitimize herself as a serious author in a society that privileged male authorship. Fifty years later, Hawthorne struggled to establish an indigenous American literature in a British-dominated publishing world." "Although the two authors wrote on opposite sides of the Atlantic and with different goals, they produced remarkably similar texts that point to a connection between British and American culture. Robertson characterizes their novels as the 'Romantic moral romance', a unique kind of romance that acts as an experimental sub-genre of the novel. He argues that Inchbald and Hawthorne are representative of a larger British/American cultural confluence."--Jacket
- Series Statement
- Literary migrations
- Subject
- Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821 > Criticism and interpretation
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 > Criticism and interpretation
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864
- Inchbald, Elizabeth 1753-1821
- Inchbald, Elizabeth
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- 1800-1899
- Romanticism > Great Britain
- Romanticism > United States
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- English literature > American influences
- American literature > English influences
- American fiction
- English fiction
- Romanticism
- Literatur
- Romantik
- Great Britain
- United States
- Großbritannien
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. The romantic moral romance : an alternative transatlantic sub-genre for Elizabeth Inchbald and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Written in a style to endure : common sources for the romantic moral romance and the impact of Inchbald's transatlantic reputation -- Fable-world[s]' populated by 'human creatures' : toward a definition of the experimental romantic moral romance -- Adapting the 'great voicer of truth' : Shakespearean liminality in the romantic moral romance -- I will not accept your moral! : propositions of an alternative, individual and liminal moral order for Inchbald and Hawthorne -- Figures 'Pourtrayed apart' with 'Real or well-counterfeited simplicity' : complicating the romantic moral romance with symbolic and fragmentary figures -- Conclusion : Impression[s] of veracity : echoes of the romantic moral romance in the modern, symbolic novel.
- ISBN
- 9781851966271
- 1851966277
- 9781851965892
- 1851965890
- OCLC
- ocn477061900
- 477061900
- SCSB-14697686
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library