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Jane Talbot : a novel
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Shapiro, Stephen (2019) Jane Talbot : a novel. In: Barnard, Philip and Emmett, Hilary and Shapiro, Stephen, (eds.) Oxford handbook on Charles Brockden Brown. Oxford Handbooks . New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-152. ISBN 9780199860067
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Abstract
This chapter traces the critical history of Charles Brockden Brown’s Jane Talbot from the dominant reception of it as a failed novel and a capitulation to a gendered consumer market and political conservatism. Yet Jane Talbot deserves to be read not as expressing the rising interests of liberalism and imperialist nationalism but as critiquing their emergence, while also standing as a retrospective consideration of the flaws of 1790s Woldwinite claims for rational sentiment and progressive emulation as a mechanism for social betterment. Jane Talbot stands as one of the first American literary productions that self-consciously understands itself as a novel (rather than a “romance”) while also suggesting the limits to the novel form in a period of increasingly dominant economic and political liberalism.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Handbooks | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | New York, NY, United States of America | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780199860067 | ||||||
Book Title: | Oxford handbook on Charles Brockden Brown | ||||||
Editor: | Barnard, Philip and Emmett, Hilary and Shapiro, Stephen | ||||||
Official Date: | 4 July 2019 | ||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 139-152 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.013.11 | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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