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050 00 $aPN441$b.D797 2012
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100 1 $aDuring, Simon,$d1950-
245 10 $aAgainst democracy :$bliterary experience in the era of emancipations /$cSimon During.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$c2012.
300 $aix, 181 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDemocracy today -- Reform or refusal? Living in democratic capitalism -- Conservatism and critique -- Literary criticism's failure -- The literary origins of modern democracy -- Howards End's socialism -- Saul Bellow and the antinomies of democratic experience.
650 0 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aDemocracy in literature.
650 0 $aConservatism in literature.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
730 0 $aProject Muse UPCC books$5net
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