The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown: Radical History and the Early Republic

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part 1: Remembering the Past 1 European and Colonial Traditions 3 2 “Domestic History” and the Republican Novel 28 Part 2: Historiography and the “Art of the Historian” 3 Historical Representation in the Monthly Magazine and American Review and the Literary Magazine and American Register 69 4 The Historical Sketches—and “a Government, Ecclesiastical and Civil” 109 5 Empire and the “Annals of Europe” 134 Part 3: The Politics of History 6 American Exceptionalism and the “Annals of America” 179 7 Constitutional Limits—and “Liberalism” 225 Epilogue 259 Notes 265 Index 322 ...