Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing The American Example

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English | ISBN: 0812249763 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018

During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those gestures and conventions by which Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and others created their closed worlds of self, private property, and respectable society. The result was a distinctively American novel that generated a system of social relations resembling today’s distributed network. Such a network operated counter to the formal protocols that later distinguished the great tradition of the American novel.
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