LEADER 04399nam 2200649 450 001 9910466849703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9461-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812294613 035 $a(CKB)3840000000329847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5380019 035 $a(DE-B1597)493769 035 $a(OCoLC)1017727166 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812294613 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5380019 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11554912 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000329847 100 $a20180522d2018 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNovels in the time of democratic writing $ethe American example /$fNancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (261 pages) 225 1 $aHaney Foundation series 311 $a0-8122-4976-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Argumentum ad Populum --$tChapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing --$tChapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract --$tChapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing --$tChapter 4. Dispersal --$tChapter 5. Population --$tChapter 6. Conversion --$tChapter 7. Hubs --$tChapter 8. Anamorphosis --$tChapter 9. Becoming National Literature --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDuring the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those gestures and conventions by which Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and others created their closed worlds of self, private property, and respectable society. The result was a distinctively American novel that generated a system of social relations resembling today's distributed network. Such a network operated counter to the formal protocols that later distinguished the great tradition of the American novel. In Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing, Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse show how these first U.S. novels developed multiple paths to connect an extremely diverse field of characters, redefining private property as fundamentally antisocial and setting their protagonists to the task of dispersing that property-its goods and people-throughout the field of characters. The populations so reorganized proved suddenly capable of thinking and acting as one. Despite the diverse local character of their subject matter and community of readers, the first U.S. novels delivered this argument in a vernacular style open and available to all. Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDemocracy in literature 606 $aComparative literature$xAmerican and English 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and American 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDemocracy in literature. 615 0$aComparative literature$xAmerican and English. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and American. 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory 676 $a813.209 700 $aArmstrong$b Nancy$f1938-$0296924 702 $aTennenhouse$b Leonard$f1942- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466849703321 996 $aNovels in the time of democratic writing$92482787 997 $aUNINA