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Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing : The American Example / Leonard Tennenhouse, Nancy Armstrong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Haney Foundation SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Argumentum ad Populum -- Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing -- Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract -- Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing -- Chapter 4. Dispersal -- Chapter 5. Population -- Chapter 6. Conversion -- Chapter 7. Hubs -- Chapter 8. Anamorphosis -- Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: 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.In Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing, Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse show how these first U.S. novels developed multiple paths to connect an extremely diverse field of characters, redefining private property as fundamentally antisocial and setting their protagonists to the task of dispersing that property—its goods and people—throughout the field of characters. The populations so reorganized proved suddenly capable of thinking and acting as one. Despite the diverse local character of their subject matter and community of readers, the first U.S. novels delivered this argument in a vernacular style open and available to all. Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Argumentum ad Populum -- Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing -- Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract -- Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing -- Chapter 4. Dispersal -- Chapter 5. Population -- Chapter 6. Conversion -- Chapter 7. Hubs -- Chapter 8. Anamorphosis -- Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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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.In Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing, Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse show how these first U.S. novels developed multiple paths to connect an extremely diverse field of characters, redefining private property as fundamentally antisocial and setting their protagonists to the task of dispersing that property—its goods and people—throughout the field of characters. The populations so reorganized proved suddenly capable of thinking and acting as one. Despite the diverse local character of their subject matter and community of readers, the first U.S. novels delivered this argument in a vernacular style open and available to all. Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James.

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In English.

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