Mercenaries in British and American literature, 1790-1830 : writing, fighting, and marrying for money /
In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution. When writers treat the figure of the me...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
©2010.
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| Col·lecció: | Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r1x61 |
Taula de continguts:
- COVER; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: MERCENARY, CONTRACTOR, VOLUNTEER, SLAVE; 1. ORMOND'S FIGHTERS: AUTHORSHIP, SOLDIERING, AND THE TRANSATLANTIC CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN; 2. ENCOUNTERING THE MERCENARY: NATIVE AMERICAN AUXILIARIES, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND CHARLOTTE SMITH; 3. 'A GOOD ONE THOUGH RATHER FOR THE FOREIGN MARKET': WALTER SCOTT, LORD BYRON, AND THE ROMANTIC MERCENARY; 4. LOYALTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND JAMES FENIMORE COOPER'S REVOLUTION; 5. THE BRAVOS OF VENICE; EPILOGUE: MERCENARIES AND THE MODERN MILITARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.