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9780742532595

Democracy's Literature Politics and Fiction in America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742532595

  • ISBN10:

    0742532593

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-07-28
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. In this fascinating new anthology of original essays, ten leading scholars explore the ways in which American civic education has been informally advanced through literature. Delving into the works of authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Octavia Butler, these essays reflect on the close relationship between democracy and literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Art of Democratic Literature 1(206)
Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance
1 Billy Budd and the Politics of Prudence
9(22)
Dan Sabia
2 Yankee Go Home: Twain's Postcolonial Romance
31(30)
Paul A. Cantor
3 Tom Sawyer: Potential President
61(18)
Catherine H. Zuckert
4 Patriots and Philosophers: The Idea of Obligation and Race in William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust
79(18)
Joseph Romance
5 A Story about Nothing: Two Kinds of Nihilists and One Kind of Christian in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"
97(20)
Peter Augustine Lawler
6 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Men
117(36)
Pamela K. Jensen
7 Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith
153(18)
Wilson Carey McWilliams
8 Vexed Genealogy: Octavia Butler and Political Memories of Slavery
171(20)
Lawrie Balfour
9 "Hello Babies": Eliot Rosewater and the Art of Citizenship in the Graduation Speeches of Kurt Vonnegut
191(16)
D.A. Hamlin
10 The American Mystery Deepens: Hearing Tocqueville in Don DeLillo's White Noise 207(28)
Patrick J. Deneen
Index 235

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