Research Catalog

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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Details

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