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Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the republic and the Civil war. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about various subversive elements are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville.Levine, Robert S. is the author of 'Conspiracy and Romance Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville' with ISBN 9780521366540 and ISBN 0521366542.
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