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Author:

Kamrath, Mark.

Title:

The historicism of Charles Brockden Brown : radical history and the early republic / Mark L. Kamrath.

Publisher:

Kent State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xix, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Brown, Charles Brockden,--1771-1810--Criticism and interpretation.
Brown, Charles Brockden,--1771-1810--History.--History.
Brown, Charles Brockden,--1771-1810--Knowledge--United States.
History in literature.
Historicism in literature.
United States--In literature.
United States--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part 1. Remembering the past. European and colonial traditions; "Domestic history" and the Republican novel -- Part 2. Historiography and the "art of the historian." Historical representation in the Monthly magazine and American review and the Literary magazine and American register; The historical sketches-and "a government, ecclesiastical and civil"; Empire and the "annals of Europe" -- Part 3. The politics of history. American exceptionalism and the "annals of America"; Constitutional limits-and "liberalism"

ISBN:

1606350323 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781606350324 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)467358967

LCCN:

2009047068

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)