Novels in the time of democratic writing : the American example / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse.

Author
Armstrong, Nancy, 1938- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Description
252 pages ; 24 cm.

Availability

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks PS375 .A76 2018 Browse related items Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    Author
    Series
    Haney Foundation series [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780812249767 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0812249763 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2017032703
    OCLC
    994296485
    Other standard number
    • 40027852256
    Statement on language in description
    Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
    Other views
    Staff view