Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic moral romance
Subtitle: little histories and neutral territories
By: by Ben P. Robertson
Series: Literary migrations
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781851966271; 9781851965892
Subjects: English literature; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; American literature; Romanticism; English fiction; American fiction; American influences; English influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The romantic moral romance : an alternative transatlantic sub-genre for Elizabeth Inchbald and Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Written in a style to endure : common sources for the romantic moral romance and the impact of Inchbald's transatlantic reputation; title: Fable-world[s]' populated by 'human creatures' : toward a definition of the experimental romantic moral romance; title: Adapting the 'great voicer of truth' : Shakespearean liminality in the romantic moral romance; title: I will not accept your moral! : propositions of an alternative, individual and liminal moral order for Inchbald and Hawthorne; title: Figures 'Pourtrayed apart' with 'Real or well-counterfeited simplicity' : complicating the romantic moral romance with symbolic and fragmentary figures; title: Conclusion : Impression[s] of veracity : echoes of the romantic moral romance in the modern, symbolic novel.