Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kerry Larson, Kerry (University of Michigan Larson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9781107404717
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40471-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies