Seers and judges: American literature as political philosophy

• Main Author: HENDERSON, Christine Rodman
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: English Language and Literature; Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3403
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that America had no truly great literature, and that American writers merely mimicked the British and European traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This new edited collection masterfully refutes Tocqueville's monocultural myopia and reveals the d...