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Imagining equality in nineteenth-century American literature /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Imagining equality in nineteenth-century American literature // Kerry Larson.
作者:	Larson, Kerry C.,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Literature and society - History - 19th century. - United States -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720079
ISBN:	9780511720079 (ebook)

Imagining equality in nineteenth-century American literature /
Larson, Kerry C.,

Imagining equality in nineteenth-century American literature /Kerry Larson. - 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;157. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Indestructible equality -- Inequality in theory -- The precise spirit of the average mass -- Comparatively speaking -- Transcending friendships -- The common tradition.

The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various regimes of power and the illicit hierarchies upon which they are built. Studies of the United States in the nineteenth century have followed this trend in focusing on slavery, women's writing, and working-class activism. Kerry Larson advocates the importance of looking instead at equality as a central theme, viewing it not as an endangered ideal to strive for and protect but as an imagined social reality in its own right, one with far-reaching consequences. In this original study, he 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, both canonical and non-canonical, and in doing so discovers important themes in Stowe, Hawthorne, Douglass and Alcott.

ISBN: 9780511720079 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

561413
Literature and society
--History--United States--19th century.

LC Class. No.: PS217.E68 / L37 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/3552

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