Fictional liberalism, novel democracy : the post-war American novel and the state of American liberal democracy
That the fundamental tension between liberalism and democracy, the two founding imperatives of the American political tradition, has been an important theme of the American novel is obvious when one considers the contribution that writers of the stature of Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, James, Dos Pass...
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University of Edinburgh
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.666159 |