Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel
by
Joe Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how—and to what end—U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation. In conversation with intellectual, social,...