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Seers and judges : American literature as political philosophy
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- Creator
- edited by Christine Dunn Henderson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 170 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780739103197, 0739103199
- OCLC
- ocm47965021
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The "seer": the democratic poet's recognition and transcendence / Ann Davies -- Huckleberry Finn and Twain's democratic art of writing / Mary P. Nichols -- Tocquevillian Americans: Henry James, Daisy Miller, Pandora Day / Lauren Weiner -- The House of mirth: Edith Wharton's critique of American society / Despina Korovessis -- Singing an American song: Tocquevillian reflections on Willa Cather's The song of the lark / Christine Dunn Henderson -- A man of will / Lilly J. Goren -- Percy and Tocqueville on American aristocracy and democracy / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Men and money in Tom Wolfe's America / Carol McNamara -- The technological culture of nihilism: John Updike's Protestant pilgrimage and Walker Percy's Catholic naturalism / Thomas S. Engeman