The historicism of Charles Brockden Brown
Subtitle: radical history and the early republic
By: Mark L. Kamrath.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781606350324
Subjects: Brown, Charles Brockden, -- 1771-1810 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brown, Charles Brockden, -- 1771-1810 -- Knowledge -- History; Brown, Charles Brockden, -- 1771-1810 -- Knowledge -- United States; History in literature; Historicism in literature; Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- In literature; United States -- History -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Remembering the past: European and colonial traditions; "Domestic history" and the Republican novel; title: Part 2. Historiography and the "art of the historian": Historical representation in the Monthly magazine and American review and the Literary magazine and American register; The historical sketches-and "a government, ecclesiastical and civil"; Empire and the "annals of Europe"; title: Part 3. The politics of history: American exceptionalism and the "annals of America"; constitutional limits-and "liberalism".