Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (1996)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0195079884

Condition: Good

There is pencil lining throughout the introduction. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

Shirley Samuels examines revolutionary rhetoric from the 1790s through the 1850s primarily in novels, but also in poems, pamphlets, political cartoons, and sermons, produced by such figures as Mason Weems, Charles Brockden Brown, Catherine Sedgwick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, and James Fenimore Cooper. - from the inside flap