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Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example (Haney Foundation Series)

Full title: Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example (Haney Foundation Series)
ISBN: 9780812249767
ISBN 10: 0812249763
Authors: Tennenhouse, Leonard Armstrong, Nancy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Num. pages: 264
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2018

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Synopsis

In The Decades After U.s. Independence, American Novelists Carried On An Argument That Pitted Direct Democracy Against The Representative Liberalism They Attributed To Their British Counterparts. The Result Was An American Novel Distinguished By Its Use Of Narrative Tropes That Generated A Social System Resembling Today's Distributed Network.