Christine Holbo

Legal Realisms

The American Novel Under Reconstruction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Civil War, Reconstruction and the post-war Amendments revolutionized American intellectual life, compelling new discussions of inequality and difference. Legal Realisms explores how a new kind of American novel emerged in relation to contemporary aesthetic, legal, and political debates about the meaning of social representation in literature and public life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780190604547
• ISBN-10: 0190604549
• Artikelnr.: 56790525

Autorenporträt

Christine Holbo is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1. The Novel in the Era of Plessy
* Chapter 2. Perfect Knowledge: Sympathetic Realism between the
Rational and the Real
* Chapter 3. Imperfect Knowledge: William Dean Howells, Perspectival
Realism and Social Politics
* Chapter 4. A Double-Barreled Novel. Huckleberry Finn and the Great
American Novel as Perspectival Realism
* Bibliography
* Notes