Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Kerry Larson is Professor of English at the University of Michigan! Ann Arbor. Klappentext An exploration of the theme of equality in Stowe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Alcott and others. Zusammenfassung In this study! Larson reads the literature of the pre-Civil War United States against Tocqueville's theories of equality. Imagining Equality tests these theories in the work of a broad array of authors and genres! and in doing so discovers important new themes in Stowe! Hawthorne! Douglass and Alcott. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Indestructible Equality: 1. The defenseless enemy; 2. Inequality in theory; Part II. The Many in the One: 3. The precise spirit of the average mass; 4. Comparatively speaking; Part III. Equal but Separate: 5. Transcending friendships; 6. The common condition.

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• Authors: Kerry Larson, Kerry (University of Michigan Larson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521898034
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89803-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies