The American Historical Romance (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

by George Dekker (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1987

  $158.72

  Traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early 19th century to the eve of World War II. This book examines the historical novel's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of literary regionalism; and with the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance.

• New

  Paperback
  1990

  $42.95

  Tracing the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early 19th century to the eve of World War II, the author devotes most of his book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and others.