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050	0	0	_aPS374.P6 _bH87 2007
072		7	_aLIT004020 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a813.009358
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHutchison, Anthony _eautore
245	1	0	_aWriting the Republic : _bLiberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction / _cAnthony Hutchison.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2007]
264		4	_c©2007
300			_a1 online resource (256 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tIntroduction: Liberalism and the Problem of Tradition in American Literature -- _tPART I. The Nineteenth-Century Context -- _t1. Elusive Republicanism -- _t2. "Our Divine Equality" -- _tPART II. The Twentieth-Century Context -- _t3. Ideas in Modulation -- _t4. Liberalism Betrayed -- _tConclusion. Writing the Republic -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American political tradition, and to acknowledge this is to introduce a new, rewarding chapter of critical inquiry into the study of American literature.Focusing on the works of Herman Melville, Gore Vidal, Russell Banks, Lionel Trilling, and Philip Roth, Hutchison finds a critique of liberalism put forth by classical republicanism, transcendentalism, Marxism, and neoconservatism at their respective moments of historical ascent. He shows how these authors take very specific historical periods and episodes for their subject matter and interrogate, critique, and contextualize pivotal moments in the intellectual history of American liberalism. In their work, liberalism reconstitutes itself in the face of competing ideological pressures, demonstrating that the novel is very much characterized by a "republican" concern with the health of the polity.Considering such artists, philosophers, and theorists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hannah Arendt, and John Dewey, alongside numerous contemporary commentators and historians, Hutchison repositions American novelists as serious political thinkers. He reveals Melville's Moby Dick to be the formal template for the American political novel and compares and contrasts its embodiment of "republican" fiction with the "democratic" mode Mikhail Bakhtin associates with Dostoevsky. He especially draws attention to the meaning of republicanism in the early national period, the place of abolitionism in the Civil War, and the post-1930s liberal retreat from Left radicalism. By concentrating on the tension between issues of liberalism and morality in the political thought of these American novelists, Hutchison hopes to advance a more nuanced and textured understanding of the U.S. political tradition. He scrutinizes a number of critical studies and makes a cogent case for a more interdisciplinary approach to the American political novel that focuses less on the politics of representation and more on the representation of politics.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEthics in literature.
650		0	_aLiberalism in literature.
650		0	_aPolitical fiction, American _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPolitics in literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/hutc14138
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231511902
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