1st Edition

Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance Little Histories and Neutral Territories

By Ben P Robertson Copyright 2010
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). This study argues that Inchbald and Hawthorne are representative of a larger British/American cultural confluence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Introduction , Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 1 ‘Written in a Style to Endure’: Common Sources for the Romantic Moral Romance and the Impact of Inchbald’s Transatlantic Reputation, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 2 ‘Fable-World[s’ Populated by ‘Human Creatures’: Toward a Definition of the Experimental Romantic Moral Romance, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 3 Adapting the ‘Great Voicer of Truth’: Shakespearean Liminality in the Romantic Moral Romance, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 4 ‘I Will not Accept Your Moral!’: Propositions of an Alternative, Individual and Liminal Moral Order for Inchbald and Hawthorne, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 5 Figures ‘Pourtrayed APart ’ With ‘Real or Well-Counterfeited Simplicity’: Complicating the Romantic Moral Romance With Symbolic and Fragmentary Figures, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 6 Conclusion ‘Impression[s of Veracity’: Echoes of the Romantic Moral Romance in the Modern, Symbolic Novel, Ben P. Robertson;

Biography

Ben P. Robertson