Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814
Legacy › Vol. 23 Nbr. 2, October 2006
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With the growth of commerce, authorities feared the loss of Republican virtue, but fiction, she argues, offered an interesting palliative for this anxiety: fantasies of retirement in an agrarian idyll after a lifetime of trade reconciled unappealing economic realities with the American need for virtuous farmers such as Crevecoeur's James. With this dismissal, Weyler consigns stories of slaves, servants, Native Americans, and immigrants to scholars of the antebellum period without fully demonstrating her justification for such an exclusion.
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Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814
Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814. By Karen A. Weyler. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 292 pp. $39.95.
Reviewed by Lisa M. Vetere, Monmouth UniversityWhat are the politics of the early American novel? Ca...See the full content of this document
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