num_pages: 333
description: Tries to explain the development of a true American literature in the mid-nineteenth century by examining the careers of writers like Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau
language: English
title: Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America
titlecomplete: Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America
characters: Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson
ratings_count: 6
places: The United States of America
publisher: Penguin Books