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Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940
Civil Wars American Novelists and Manners 18801940
Author: Susan Goodman
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 cons...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801868245
ISBN-10: 0801868246
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Pages: 216
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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