{"product_id":"novels-in-the-time-of-democratic-writing-9780812249767","title":"Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse have long been our preeminent theorists of the novel. In this latest, virtuoso installment, they take on the novels of the early republic, seeing this corpus as nothing less than a template for a new polity, an updated version of the global and the local, replacing the hierarchical social contract of their English counterparts with a managed horizontality, a controlled redistribution of property and sensibility. Electrifying and eye-opening.\" * Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003e\"An important, timely, and much-needed book. Few accounts of the early American novel have the tenacity, willingness, and breadth of learning to accomplish what Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse do here: to reframe the novel form in relation to what has been thought of as its American variant. When this book has done its work, there will be no British novel or American novel; there will be the 'network novel.'\" * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. \u003ci\u003eArgumentum ad Populum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Dispersal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Population\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Conversion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Hubs\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Anamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405734388055,"sku":"9780812249767","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249767.jpg?v=1730493431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/novels-in-the-time-of-democratic-writing-9780812249767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}