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Novels in the time of democratic writing : the American example / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse.
Author
Armstrong, Nancy, 1938-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Description
252 pages ; 24 cm.
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PS375 .A76 2018
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Subject(s)
American fiction
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18th century
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History and criticism
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American fiction
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Democracy in literature
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Comparative literature
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American and English
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Comparative literature
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English and American
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Nationalism and literature
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United States
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History
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18th century
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Nationalism and literature
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Author
Tennenhouse, Leonard, 1942-
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Series
Haney Foundation series
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Summary note
During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those gestures and conventions by which Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and others created their closed worlds of self, private property, and respectable society. The result was a distinctively American novel that generated a system of social relations resembling today's distributed network. Such a network operated counter to the formal protocols that later distinguished the great tradition of the American novel.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-243) and index.
Contents
Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing
Refiguring the Social Contract
Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing
Dispersal
Population
Conversion
Hubs
Anamorphosis
Becoming National Literature.
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ISBN
9780812249767 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
0812249763 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017032703
OCLC
994296485
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40027852256
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