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- catalog abstract "Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical theory to address how the European novel of class revolt was transformed into the American novel of imperial expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe - can and should be considered as part of a genre too often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel. Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself as a means of establishing Political consensus. For European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the tyranny of the king must be replaced by the more indisputable authority of human reason. In other words, democratic revolution makes people free to investigate the same truths and arrive at the same democratic conclusions. In the American novel, however, the Enlightenment's idealized pursuit of abstract truth becomes restructured as a pursuit of abstract space. Instead of revealing knowledge, Americans explore further territories, manifest destiny, limitless regions of the yet-to-be-colonized and the still-to-be-known. In a spirited discussion of works by Brown, Cooper and Poe, Bradfield argues that Americans take the class dynamics of the European psychological novel and apply them to the American landscape, reimagining psychological spaces as geographical ones. Class distinctions become refigured in terms of the common people's pursuit of a meaning vaster than themselves - a meaning which leads them to imagine the always expanding body of colonial America. However, since class conflict is never successfully eliminated or forgotten, the memory of class struggle always reemerges in the narrative like a half-repressed dream of politics. In Dreaming Revolution, Bradfield reveals and interprets these dreams, opening these American novels to a richer and more rewarding reading.".
- catalog contributor b4253861.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Dreaming Revolution usefully employs current critical theory to address how the European novel of class revolt was transformed into the American novel of imperial expansion. Bradfield shows that early American romantic fiction - including works by William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe - can and should be considered as part of a genre too often limited to the Nineteenth-century European novel. Beginning with Godwin's Caleb Williams, Bradfield describes the ways in which revolution legitimates itself as a means of establishing Political consensus. For European revolutionaries like Godwin or Rousseau, the tyranny of the king must be replaced by the more indisputable authority of human reason. In other words, democratic revolution makes people free to investigate the same truths and arrive at the same democratic conclusions. In the American novel, however, the Enlightenment's idealized pursuit of abstract truth becomes restructured as a pursuit of abstract space. Instead of revealing knowledge, Americans explore further territories, manifest destiny, limitless regions of the yet-to-be-colonized and the still-to-be-known. In a spirited discussion of works by Brown, Cooper and Poe, Bradfield argues that Americans take the class dynamics of the European psychological novel and apply them to the American landscape, reimagining psychological spaces as geographical ones. Class distinctions become refigured in terms of the common people's pursuit of a meaning vaster than themselves - a meaning which leads them to imagine the always expanding body of colonial America. However, since class conflict is never successfully eliminated or forgotten, the memory of class struggle always reemerges in the narrative like a half-repressed dream of politics. In Dreaming Revolution, Bradfield reveals and interprets these dreams, opening these American novels to a richer and more rewarding reading.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-122) and index.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. The whole truth : Caleb Williams and the transgression of class -- ch. 2. The great sea-change : Edgar Huntly and the transgression of space -- ch. 3. James Fenimore Cooper and the return of the king -- ch. 4. Edgar Allan Poe and the exaltation of form.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 125 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Dreaming revolution.".
- catalog identifier "0877453950 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dreaming revolution.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog relation "Dreaming revolution.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.309358 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction European influences.".
- catalog subject "Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. Edgar Huntly.".
- catalog subject "Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Deviant behavior in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dissenters in literature.".
- catalog subject "Godwin, William, 1756-1836. Things as they are.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PS374.P6 B7 1993".
- catalog subject "Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Political fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism United States.".
- catalog subject "Social conflict in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. The whole truth : Caleb Williams and the transgression of class -- ch. 2. The great sea-change : Edgar Huntly and the transgression of space -- ch. 3. James Fenimore Cooper and the return of the king -- ch. 4. Edgar Allan Poe and the exaltation of form.".
- catalog title "Dreaming revolution : transgression in the development of American romance / Scott Bradfield.".
- catalog type "text".