This study shows that sentimental, melodramatic and gothic novels written in the wake of the American Revolution can be read as an emotional history of the early Republic, reflecting the hate, fear and grief which tormented the federalist era, and giving voice to a collective mourning process.
Specificaties
Uitgever
University of Chicago Press
Verschenen
nov. 1997
Bladzijden
320
Genre
Literatuurstudies: fictie, romanschrijvers en prozaschrijvers