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Imagining equality in nineteenth-century American literature /
"Kerry Larson advocates the importance of looking instead at equality as a central theme, viewing it not as an endangered ideal to strive for and protect but as an imagined social reality in its own right, one with far-reaching consequences. In this original study, he reads the literature of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
156. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Kerry Larson advocates the importance of looking instead at equality as a central theme, viewing it not as an endangered ideal to strive for and protect but as an imagined social reality in its own right, one with far-reaching consequences. In this original study, he reads the literature of the pre-Civil War United States against Tocqueville's theories of equality."--[book cover] |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107322172 1107322170 9780511720079 0511720076 1107202019 9781107202016 1139810774 9781139810777 1107316782 9781107316782 1107317754 9781107317758 1299399851 9781299399853 1107315824 9781107315822 |