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...
Scott Bradfield is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
“Dreaming Revolution is a cogent and compelling discussion of transgression in major American romances and their British progenitors... Bradfield provides convincing readings that demonstrate precisely how transgression as a romantic ideal is recuperated as an aspect of bourgeois ideology... what lends strength and originality to Bradfield’s book are the clarity and care with which he conducts his readings of individual works... this is a strong contribution to the ongoing discussion...
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