The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-system

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Penn State Press, 2010 - 371 էջ
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 advent, decline, and reinvigoration of the early American novel. That the American novel "sprang so unexpectedly into published existence during the 1790s" may be a symptom of the beginning of the end of Franco-British supremacy and a reflection of the power of a middle class riding the crest of a new world economic system. Shapiro's world-systems approach is a relatively new methodology for literary studies, but it brings two particularly useful features to the table. First, it refines the conceptual frameworks for analyzing cultural and social history, such as the rise in sentimentalism, in relation to a long-wave economic history of global commerce; second, it fosters a new model for a comparative American Studies across time. Rather than relying on contiguous time, a world-systems approach might compare the cultural production of one region to another at the same location within the recurring cycle in an economic reconfiguration. Shapiro offers a new way of thinking about the causes for the emergence of the American novel that suggests a fresh way of rethinking the overall paradigms shaping American Studies.

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The Paradigm Problem of the Early American Novel
1
2 The Geoculture of the AngloFrench EighteenthCentury WorldSystem
51
3 The Reexport Republic and the Rise of the Early American Novel
97
Franklins Autobiography and the Institution of Ideology
169
5 Wieland and the Problem of Counterinstitutionality
209
6 Arthur Mervyn and the Racial Revolution of Narrative Consciousness
259
Early NineteenthCentury American Studies and the WorldSystems Perspective
301
Bibliography
305
Index
351
Back Cover
373
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Stephen Shapiro is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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