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Democratic Humanism and American Literature
Democratic Humanism and American Literature Author:Harold Kaplan Democratic Humanism and American Literature illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America’s classic nineteenth-century writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Kaplan suggests that these major figures’ works are linked by the myths of genesis of a... more » new political culture. Challenged by the democratic ideal, and committed to it, they wrote prophetic books in the American liberal tradition and endowed its ethical intelligence.« less