Against democracy
Subtitle: literary experience in the era of emancipations
By: Simon During
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823242542; 9780823242559
Subjects: Democracy in literature; Literature; Politics and literature; Theory; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Conservatism in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.