Intricate Relations charts the development of the novel in and beyond the early republic in relation to these two thematic and intricately connected centers: sexuality and economics. By reading fiction written by Americans between 1789 and 1814...
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Intricate Relations charts the development of the novel in and beyond the early republic in relation to these two thematic and intricately connected centers: sexuality and economics. By reading fiction written by Americans between 1789 and 1814 alongside medical theory, political and economic tracts, and pedagogical literature of all kinds, Karen Weyler recreates and illuminates the larger, sometimes opaque, cultural context in which novels were written, published, and read.In 1799, the novelist Charles Brockden Brown used the evocative phrase "intricate relations" to
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Intricate Relations; 1. A Manner Unquestionably More Agreeable: The Politics, Aesthetics, and Praxis of Epistolary Fiction; 2. Unlawful Embraces: Sexual Transgression, Madness, and the Ascendancy of Medical and Narrative Discourse; 3. A Speculating Spirit: Economic Anxieties and Opportunities in Early American Fiction; 4. Gentleman Strangers and Dangerous Deceptions; Epilogue. Looking Forward to Antebellum Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index
