Ruthless democracy : a multicultural interpretation of the American renaissance / Timothy B. Powell.

Ruthless democracy : a multicultural interpretation of the American renaissance / Timothy B. Powell.

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Powell, Timothy B., 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2000]
Subjects:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: history imagined "fantastically awry"
  • John Rollin Ridge: extending the borders of "America" from New England to Alta California
  • Henry David Thoreau: "the only true America"
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin and the question of the American colonization society
  • William Wells Brown: mapping the American diaspora
  • Herman Melville: ruthless democracy.

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