Author: SPENGEMANN, William C.
Title: The Adventurous Muse. The Poetics of American Fiction, 1789 - 1900.
Description: Yale University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Ex-lib. Tape marks to inside cover, o/wise good in dj. Examines 19th century American fiction, which emerged "...out of two very different fictional poetics: a poetics of adventure serving to portray a new world seen at its moving frontier and a poetics of domesticity devised to counter this potentially subversive version of reality...", within the context of this dialectic. Scarce. 290pp.

Keywords: english literature history historical america united states fiction literary criticism 19th nineteenth century fiction