- Start
- Democratic Humanism and American Literature
Democratic Humanism and American Literature
Angebote / Angebote:
Democratic Humanism and American Literature illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the Americas classic nineteenth-century writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Kaplan suggests that these major figures works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture. Challenged by the democratic ideal, and committed to it, they wrote prophetic books in the American liberal tradition and endowed its ethical intelligence.
Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen