Democratic Humanism and American Literature
Democratic Humanism and American Literature illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America''s classic nineteenth-century writers--Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures'' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture. Challenged by the demo...
Democratic Humanism and American Literature illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America''s classic nineteenth-century writers--Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures'' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture. Challenged by the demo...