Inchbald Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). This study argues that Inchbald and Hawthorne are representative of a larger British/American cultural confluence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Introduction , Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 1 ‘Written in a Style to Endure’: Common Sources for the Romantic Moral Romance and the Impact of Inchbald’s Transatlantic Reputation, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 2 ‘Fable-World[s’ Populated by ‘Human Creatures’: Toward a Definition of the Experimental Romantic Moral Romance, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 3 Adapting the ‘Great Voicer of Truth’: Shakespearean Liminality in the Romantic Moral Romance, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 4 ‘I Will not Accept Your Moral!’: Propositions of an Alternative, Individual and Liminal Moral Order for Inchbald and Hawthorne, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 5 Figures ‘Pourtrayed APart ’ With ‘Real or Well-Counterfeited Simplicity’: Complicating the Romantic Moral Romance With Symbolic and Fragmentary Figures, Ben P. Robertson; Chapter 6 Conclusion ‘Impression[s of Veracity’: Echoes of the Romantic Moral Romance in the Modern, Symbolic Novel, Ben P. Robertson;