Civil Wars American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940 |
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| Author:
| Goodman, Susan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6824-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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Observers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Lionel Trilling have found the United States wanting in what it takes to produce a novelist of manners-namely, a rich enough past and sufficiently stratified classes. In a work that recovers the broader meaning of ''manners'' for past generations, Susan Goodman demonstrates that American writers have ......
Observers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Lionel Trilling have found the United States wanting in what it takes to produce a novelist of manners-namely, a rich enough past and sufficiently stratified classes. In a work that recovers the broader meaning of ''manners'' for past generations, Susan Goodman demonstrates that American writers have ......