Writing the Republic
Subtitle: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231141383
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; United States - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Ethics in literature; History and criticism; Liberalism in literature; Political fiction, American
Description: "In this book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American political tradition." "Hutchison finds a critique of liberalism put forth by classical republicanism, transcendentalism, Marxism, and neoconservatism at their respective moments of historical ascent."--BOOK JACKET.