The culture and commerce of the early American novel : reading the Atlantic world-system /

"Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's Annals of Europe and America, which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, Stephen Shapiro charts the adve...

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Main Author: Shapiro, Stephen, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Subjects and Genres:
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • Method and misperception: the paradigm problem of the early American novel
  • The geoculture of the Anglo-French eighteenth-century world system
  • The re-export and the rise of the early American novel
  • The paradox of the public sphere: Franklin's Autobiography and the institution of ideology
  • Wieland and the problem of counterinstitutionality
  • Arthur Mervyn and the racial revolution of narrative consciousness
  • Afterword: early nineteenth-century American studies and the world-systems perspective.