George Dekker

Biographic Data

ID556382
NAMEGeorge Dekker
GIVEN NAMESGeorge
FAMILY NAMEDekker
SIGNATUREDEKKER G
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • American Historical Romance

    George DekkerBOOKAmerican Historical Romance2010

  • The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University

    Open AccessDonald Kennedy, John Perky et al.ARTICLEMinerva1989

  • The American Historical Romance

    Nina Baym, George DekkerARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article The American Historical Romance. By George Dekker. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. viii + 376 pp. $34.50.) Get access Nina Baym Nina Baym University of Illinois, Urbana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 888–889, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901550 Published: 01 December 1988

  • The American Abraham

    George Dekker, Warren MotleyARTICLEAmerican Literature1988

  • The American Historical Romance

    James Woodress, George DekkerARTICLEAmerican Literature1988

  • The American Historical Romance

    Open AccessGeorge DekkerBOOKAmerican Historical Romance1987

    This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It examines the historical novel's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of literary regionalism; with the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance; with changing conceptions of gender roles; and with the authors' troubled responses to the great revo…

  • Coleridge and the Literature of Sensibility

    Joshua Ryan Jackson, J R de J Jackson et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1981

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    James Franklin Beard, George DekkerARTICLEAmerican Literature1968

    Originally published in 1967. In this critical survey of the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, George Dekker devotes a good deal of attention to Cooper’s politics. He also explores the assimilation and development of the historical novel as first perfected by Sir Walter Scott. Cooper’s major formal innovations in the field of historical fiction were, like Scott’s, something more than mere experiments: they were made because American social and po…

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    Open AccessJulian Mason, George DekkerARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1968Cited by: 3

  • Lilies that Fester

    George DekkerARTICLENew left review1964

  • The Cantos of Ezra Pound

    L S Dembo, George DekkerARTICLEAmerican Literature1964