TY - BOOK AU - Bradfield,Scott TI - Dreaming revolution: transgression in the development of American romance SN - 1587290324 AV - PS374.P6 B7 1993eb U1 - 813/.309358 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Cooper, James Fenimore, KW - Poe, Edgar Allan, KW - Brown, Charles Brockden, KW - Godwin, William, KW - Edgar Huntly (Brown, Charles Brockden) KW - fast KW - Things as they are (Godwin, William) KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Politics and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Literature and society KW - Revolutionary literature, American KW - Political fiction, American KW - European influences KW - Deviant behavior in literature KW - Social conflict in literature KW - Romanticism KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Roman am�ericain KW - 19e si�ecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Politique et litt�erature KW - �Etats-Unis KW - Histoire KW - Romantisme KW - Litt�erature et soci�et�e KW - Litt�erature r�evolutionnaire am�ericaine KW - Influence europ�eenne KW - Conflits sociaux dans la litt�erature KW - Imp�erialisme dans la litt�erature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Political and social views KW - English KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-122) and index; The whole truth : Caleb Williams and the transgression of class -- The great sea-change : Edgar Huntly and the transgression of space -- James Fenimore Cooper and the return of the king -- Edgar Allan Poe and the exaltation of form; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21949 ER -