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.
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.
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
* 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
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