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Dekker, George Gilbert was born on September 8, 1934 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of Gilbert J. and Laura (Barnes) Dekker.
(Dekker traces the American historical novel from its orig...)
Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history, the rise of literary regionalism, the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance, changing gender roles, and individual authors' troubled responses to the modern era's great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts. Though concerned with the historical romance's development, Dekker devotes most of this book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Allen Tate, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner, as well as to the Briton whose name is synonymous with the genre, Sir Walter Scott.
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Exemplary Romantic novelists Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley were likewise keen tourists and influential contributors to the discourse of Romantic tourism. The shaping power of this discourse—already highly developed in poetry, travel literature, and the visual arts by the time they began writing—affected not only what they saw and felt on tour but also how they imagined their greatest novels. Defining both tour and novel as privileged spaces exempt from the boring routines and hampering contingencies of ordinary life, these authors as well as many of their contemporaries and early Romantic predecessors effectively brought the tour into fiction and fiction into the tour. This is the first extended study of the intimate connections between these two major cultural innovations of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the first to pay close attention to the active commerce, the fluid interplay, within the larger discourse of Romantic tourism, between British Romantic fiction, poetry, tour books, landscape painting, and book illustration (as exemplified by the collaboration between Scott and J. M. W. Turner).
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Dekker, George Gilbert was born on September 8, 1934 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of Gilbert J. and Laura (Barnes) Dekker.
Bachelor in English, University California-Santa Barbara, 1955. Master of Arts in English, 1958. Master of Literature, Cambridge University, England, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Essex, England, 1967.
Lecturer, U. Wales, Swansea, 1962-1964; lecturer in literature, U. Essex, 1964-1969; reader in literature, U. Essex, 1969-1972; dean School Comparative Studies, U. Essex, 1969-1971; associate Professor of English, Stanford (California) U., 1972-1974; professor, Stanford (California) U., since 1974; department chairman, Stanford (California) U., 1978-1981, 84-85; Joseph S. Atha professor humanities, Stanford (California) U., since 1988; director program in American Studies, Stanford (California) U., 1988-1991; associate dean graduate policy, Stanford (California) U., 1993-1996.
(Dekker traces the American historical novel from its orig...)
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Member American Literature Association.
Married Linda Jo Bartholomew, August 31, 1973. Children by previous marriage: Anna Allegra, Clara Joy, Ruth Siobhan, Laura Daye.