Democratic Humanism and American Literature

Taylor & Francis Inc, 2005

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This book illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic 19th-century writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture.

ISBN-13
9781412804738
ISBN-10
1412804736
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Year
2005
Publication date
2005-05-31
Pages
330
Dimensions
229x152x
Weight
430