The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System

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abolitionism in Brown’s Arthur Mervyn, 264 in Friendly Club, 159, 279, 280 Haitian Revolution and, 264 in Philadelphia, 290–91 Underground Railroad in, 290–99 absolutism in Brown’s Memoirs of Carwin, 239 in Brown’s Wieland, 230, 247, 251, 253 and public sphere, 190, 192 rise of, 54 sensibility and, 54, 58, 59 in Woldwinism, 213, 217 academics. See education, higher Adams, Charles, 153 Adams, John, 18, 100, 113 Adorno, Theodor, 59 African Americans. See black Americans Africanization, of slavery, 83, 84 Africans as race, 279–80 as slaves (see slavery) suicide among, 90 tribal identity of, 88–89 Age of Reason, The (Paine), 159, 255 agriculture in southern economy, 110 traditional staples in, 110–12 alcohol, processing of, 81 alcoholism, 234 n. 42 Alcuin (Brown), 240, 242, 248 alienation, in capitalism, 182–83 Allen, John, 292–93, 293 n. 65, 295 Allen, Richard, 278 almshouses, 133–34 Alsop, Richard, 153 American Indians smallpox among, 73–74 in sugar production, 83–84 American Review and Literary Journal, 162 American Revolution Brown’s family in, 164, 170 Brown’s views on, 2 consumption patterns in, 75 economic contraction after, 99–101, 118–19 in Franklin’s Autobiography, 180 American studies Atlanticism in, 22 elites as focus of, 5 on Franklin’s Autobiography, 176, 181 liberalism-republicanism debate in, 14 nationalism in, 8–14 nineteenth-century, 301–3 traditional paradigms of, 8 Anderson, Benedict, 9 Anglo-French world-system, 51–95 blueprint of, 51 major geocultural elements of, 40–42, 51 sensational consumption in, 72–73 slavery in, 84 sugar production in, 84 Anglo-Jacobinism, 147–48 Anna St. Ives (Holcroft), 284 Annals of Europe and America (Brown), 1–2, 165 anthropology, structural, 41 n. 63 apprenticeships, 131 architecture in Brown’s narrative technique, 298 urban, 126–27 aristocracy, bourgeois response to, sensibility in, 52–58 Armitt, Elizabeth, 165 Armitt family, 164 Armstrong, Nancy, 7 Arrighi, Giovanni, 30 Index u Arthur Mervyn (Brown), 44, 45, 259–99 disciplining of the poor in, 270–74 ending of, 264–65, 267–68, 299 eroticism in, 248, 265–66 gender roles in, 264–68 narrative technique in, 259–60, 298–99 original plan for plot of, 261–62 racism in, 262, 263–65, 278–90 romance’s function in, 257, 298–99 seduction in, 266, 274–78 slavery in, 45, 262, 278–90 Underground Railroad in, 263, 264, 295–99 violence in, 264, 281–83 “Walstein’s School” and, 261, 270 whiteness in, 45, 264, 278–90 yellow fever in, 270, 274, 295 artisanship, re-exportation’s effects on, 130–32, 136–37 Asiento, 84, 107 associationism, 57, 92 Astor, John Jacob, 123, 157 Atlantic states, mid. See also specific states cultural institutions in, 115 population growth in, 114 re-exportation shifting power to, 5–6, 109–10 rise of, 113–17 Atlantic world-system in Brown’s writings, 162–63 major geocultural elements of, 40–42, 51 semiperiphery in, 40 sensational consumption in, 72–73 transition between phases in, 40, 42 Atlanticism, new, 22–27 circumatlanticism, 24–25 meanings of, 22 methodology of, 26–27 object of, 26–27 origins of, 22–23 paradigm of, 22–27 problems with concepts in, 23–24, 26 rebellions in, 25–26 slavery in, 24–25 transatlanticism, 23–24 audience. See readers authority, wrested, in Brown’s Wieland, 252, 256, 260 Autobiography (Franklin), 43, 169–208 arrival in Philadelphia in, 172–76 bourgeois sovereignty in, 43, 177, 207–8 Brown approached through, 167, 169 352 u index in Brown’s Arthur Mervyn, 299 Brown’s link to, 170–72 in Brown’s Wieland, 171–72, 209–11 civil society as revolution in, 177–78, 180–81 consensual persuasion in, 177–79 family in, 195–98, 253–54 ideology in, pursuit of, 181 institutional ideology of, 43, 199–208 libraries in, 205–6 Mandeville and, 199–203 novelistic techniques of, 169 perfectibility in, 193–94, 199 political events in, 180 public opinion formation in, 206–7 public sphere in, paradox of, 181, 189–99, 206–8 publication of, 209, 209 n. 2 Puffy Roll scene of, 173, 175–76, 181, 189 readers of, ideal, 208 relevance of, 167, 169 secret societies in, 204–5, 207, 239 sociocultural trends in, 43, 167, 210 vice in, 199, 202–8 Baltimore in Brown’s writings, 163, 281, 285 population growth in, 114 re-exportation in, 109, 113–15 Baltzell, E. Digby, 115 bankruptcies, among patriot bourgeoisie, 118, 120 banks bourgeois speculation in stock of, 118–21 expansion of, 114 Baucomb...