Against democracy : literary experience in the era of emancipations /
"This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocquevi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow"-- |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823246632 |