Bøger af George Dekker

Romantic novelists Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley were keen tourists and influential contributors to the discourse of Romantic tourism. The shaping power of this discourse affected not only what they saw and felt on tour but also how they imagined their greatest novels. This is a study of these two cultural innovations.

Tracing the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early 19th century to the eve of World War II, the author devotes most of his book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and others.