Novels in the time of democratic writing : the American example / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse.

• Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing -- Refiguring the Social Contract -- Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing -- Dispersal -- Population -- Conversion -- Hubs -- Anamorphosis -- Becoming National Literature.

• 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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Nationalism och litteratur  (sao)

Demokrati i litteraturen  (sao)

Komparativ litteraturforskning  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Democracy in literature.  (LCSH)

American fiction  -- 18th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Comparative literature  -- American and English. (LCSH)

Comparative literature  -- English and American. (LCSH)

Nationalism and literature  -- United States -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Nationalism and literature  -- United States -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

American fiction.  (fast)

Democracy in literature.  (fast)

Nationalism and literature.  (fast)

Roman  (gnd)

Demokratie  (gnd)

Comparative literature  -- American and English. (fast)

Comparative literature  -- English and American. (fast)

Democracy in literature  (LCSH)

Comparative literature  (LCSH)

Nationalism and literature  (LCSH)

United States.  (fast)

USA  (gnd)

1800-talet  (sao)

1700-talet  (barn)

1700-1899  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PS375 (LCC)

813.209 (DDC)