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liberalism and morality in American political fiction
Introduction: liberalism and the problem of tradition in American literature -- Elusive republicanism : Thomas Jefferson and the foundations of American politics in Gore Vidal's Burr -- "Our divine equality" : Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter and the redemptive liberalism of the Lincoln republic -- Ideas in modulation : Marxism and liberal revaluation in Lionel Trilling's The middle of the journey -- Liberalism betrayed : neoconservatism and the postwar American Left in Philip Roth's American trilogy -- Conclusion: writing the republic : Moby Dick and the form of American political fiction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-219) and index.