Writing the republic : liberalism and morality in American political fiction / Anthony Hutchison.

"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 po...

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Main Author: Hutchison, Anthony, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: liberalism and the problem of tradition in American literature -- Elusive republicanism : Thomas Jefferson and the foundations of American politics in Gore Vidal's Burr -- "Our divine equality" : Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter and the redemptive liberalism of the Lincoln republic -- Ideas in modulation : Marxism and liberal revaluation in Lionel Trilling's The middle of the journey -- Liberalism betrayed : neoconservatism and the postwar American Left in Philip Roth's American trilogy -- Conclusion: writing the republic : Moby Dick and the form of American political fiction. 
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