Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example

by Leonard Tennenhouse and Nancy Armstrong

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249763
• ISBN13: 9780812249767
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"