Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 17901830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money
Author:   Erik Simpson
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 June 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Erik Simpson
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780748636440


ISBN 10:   0748636447
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 June 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Mercenary, Contractor, Volunteer, Slave; 1. Ormond's Fighters: Authorship, Soldiering, and the Transatlantic Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Encountering the Mercenary: Native American Auxiliaries, the American Revolution, and Charlotte Smith; 3. 'A Good One though Rather for the Foreign Market': Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and the Romantic Mercenary; 4. Loyalty, Independence, and James Fenimore Cooper's Revolution; 5. The Bravos of Venice; Epilogue: Mercenaries and the Modern Military; Works Cited; Index.

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is an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College and the author of Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature (2008).

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