Beyond practical virtue a defense of liberal democracy through literature /
"Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new insight into the relationship between the sta...
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Main Author: | Johnson, Joel A., 1974- |
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