“FEARS AND FANTASIES OF THE DEVELOPING NATION” IN CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN’S LITERARY WORKS
Abstract views: 137
/ 
PDF downloads: 66
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33390/homeros.2.004Keywords:
post-revolutionary prose, national identity, developing nation, gender stereotypes, fears, fantasiesAbstract
The paper explores the "fears and fantasies" of the American nation in a post-revolutionary period. This period in the history of the American statehood is marked by the formation of national identity, new ideals of the post-Puritan stage and the Enlightenment. The literature of this period also reflects the double standards of a society freeing itself from the dogmas of puritanism and forming the Enlightenment ideals.
The article examines these processes on the samples of literary works by the American writer of the end of the XVIII century, Charles Brockden Brown, who is considered the founder of the American story and the Gothic novel. Depicting the problems of social and legal dependence of women in post-revolutionary America, the writer draws the attention of readers to the problems of the nation and its ideology.
Downloads
References
BANCROFT G. History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, 1834-1875: 10 vols. N. York: Nabu Press, 2010
BAYLIN, Bernard. To begin the World A new: The Genuis and Ambiquities of the American Founders. New York: Knopf, 2003
BARNES, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997
BLOCH, Ruth. The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America. “Signs” 13 (1987): 52,37,46,53
BOORSTIN, Daniel J. The Americans. The Colonial Experience. New York, Random House, 1958
BROWN, Charles Brockden. Alcuin. Dialogue. New York, 1982
BROWN, Charles Brockden. Ormond; or The Secret Witness. New York: G. Forman, 1799
BUSH, Jr., Harold K. American Declarations. Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, USA, 1999
COWIE, Alexander. The Rise of the American Novel. New York: American Book Company, 1951
DAVIDSON, Cathy. The Matter and Manner of Ch.B.Brown’s “Alcuin”// Bernard Rosenthal. Critical Essays on Ch.B.Brown, 1981, 71-86
DAVIDSON, Cathy N. Revolution and the World. A Rise of Novel in America. Oxford University Press: USA, 2004
EDWARDS, Holly Noble Dreams: Wicked Pleasures. Orientalism in America, 1870-1930. New York: Princeton University Press in association with Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, 2000
FLEISCHMANN, Fritz. Charles Brockden Brown: Feminism in Fiction. //American Novelists Revisited: Essays in Feminist Criticism. Boston: Hall, 1982, 6-41
Langhorne. The Accomplished Female Character, Massachusetts Magazine, April 1792
LAVATER, Johann Caspar. Essays on Physiognomy. Mass-setts Magazine, January, 1794
LEWIS, Paul. Charles Brockden Brown and the Gendered Canon of Early American Fiction. Early American Literature 31:2, 1996
SAID, Edward. Orientalism. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978
SAMUELS, Shirley. Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
PERSON, Leland. My Good Mama. “Studies in American Fiction 9”, 1981, 33
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1792; rprn. London: Penguin Books, England 1992
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/politics/khizr-khan-ghazala-donald-trumpmuslim-soldier
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
When the article is accepted for publication in the HOMEROS, authors transfer all copyright in the article to the Rating Academy Ar-Ge Yazılım Yayıncılık Eğitim Danışmanlık ve Organizasyon Ticaret Ltd. Şti.The authors reserve all proprietary right other than copyright, such as patent rights.
Everyone who is listed as an author in this article should have made a substantial, direct, intellectual contribution to the work and should take public responsibility for it.
This paper contains works that have not previously published or not under consideration for publication in other journals.
