Common Things by James D Lilley

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Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.

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Common Things by James D Lilley

Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.
Scrupulously researched with keen interpretive insight, James Lilley's Common Things is a gripping analysis of the transatlantic traditions of Gothic, sentimental, and historical romanceIn offering a new way of understanding citizenship, it reconfigures the aesthetics of modernity. A wonderfully rich interdisciplinary study. -- -Colin Dayan author of The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons James Lilley's book demands an accounting of historicity at an important moment in the field. Common Things offers not only insightful readings of a range of texts but also needed reflections on how our historical sensibilities are part of the blend. -- -Edward D. White Tulane University
James D. Lilley is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is editor of Cormac McCarthy: New Directions.
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ISBN 13 9780823255153
ISBN 10 0823255158
Title Common Things
Author James D Lilley
Series Commonalities
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Fordham University Press
Year published 2013-11-11
Number of pages 256
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