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Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy

Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy


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Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that America had no truly great literature, and that American writers merely mimicked the British and European traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This new edited collection masterfully refutes Tocqueville's monocultural myopia and reveals the distinctive role American poetry and prose have played in reflecting and passing judgment upon the core values of American democracy. The essays, profiling the work of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Willa Cather, Walker Percy, and Tom Wolfe, reveal how America's greatest writers have acted as society's most ardent cheerleaders and its most penetrating critics. Christine Dunn Henderson's exciting new work offers literature as a portal through which to view the philosophical principles that animate America's political order and the mores which either reinforce or undermine them.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 The "Seer": The Democratic Poet's Recognition and Transcedence
Chapter 2 Huckleberry Finn and Twain's Democratic Art of Writing
Chapter 3 Tocquevillian Americans: Henry James, Daisy Miller, Pandora Day
Chapter 4 The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton's Critique of American Society
Chapter 5 Singing an American Song: Tocquellian Reflections on Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
Chapter 6 A Man of Will
Chapter 7 Percy and Tocqueville on American Aristocracy and Democracy
Chapter 8 Men and Money in Tom Wolfe's America
Chapter 9 The Technological Culture of Nihilism: John Updike's Protestant Pilgrimage and Walker Percy's Catholic Naturalism



About the Author :
Christine Dunn Henderson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and a fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780739103197
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 498 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0739103199
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: American Literature as Political Philosophy
  • Width: 155 mm


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