Erik Simpson

Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830

Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 208 Seiten
ISBN 0748636447
EAN 9780748636440
Veröffentlicht Mai 2010
Verlag/Hersteller Edinburgh University Press
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Erik Simpson calls attention to the mercenary in romantic literature and uncovers his significance within American and European contexts. The mercenary of popular imagination disregards patriotic feeling in favor of whichever commander pays best. Like the slave, the mercenary obeys a master with no claim to national, religious, or familial affiliation, and his choice to serve an alien master (often by crossing the Atlantic) stands at once for an overindulgence of freedom and the failure to appreciate its value.
Simpson's primary research underpins a suggestive metaphorical and symbolic argument based on writings by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Charlotte Smith.

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is an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College and the author of Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature (2008).

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