Common Things : Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Common Things -- 1 Genre -- A Singular Blend: Genre and the Aesthetics of Belonging -- Allegory, Romance, and the Idea of Genre -- At Home with the Uncanny: Walpole and the Idea of History -- Apology -- 2 Feeling -- Romance, Race, Ruin: Henry Mackenzie and the Afterlife of Sentimental Exchange -- Jefferson and the Transatlantic Man of Feeling -- 3 Property/Personhood -- Conjuring Community: Arthur Mervyn and the Aesthetics of Ruin -- "My Extraordinary Duality": The Metempsychosis of Modern Personhood in Sheppard Lee -- Cooper, Mesmerism, and the "Immaterial Substance" of Taste in The Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief -- 4 Event/Hiatus -- The Aesthetics of American Idling -- Indian Removal and the Grimace of Ruined History -- 5 No Thing In Common -- Studies in Uniquity: Horace Walpole's Singular Collection -- Coda: Poe's Allegories of Belonging -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

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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