Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations

Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780823242542
ISBN-13 : 0823242544
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Book Synopsis Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by : Simon During

Download or read book Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations written by Simon During and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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