Actual and Ideal Society in Nineteenth-century Fiction
Kaul, A.N. (Former Professor of English and former Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi, India and Former Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University, USA)
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Hardback
352 pages
Published: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0195661079
In this work, four novelists of the 19th century are reinterpreted in terms of their approach to society. Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain are shown to have accepted, with criticism, the American social order. At the same time, each projected a per
