{"product_id":"ruthless-democracy-a-multicultural-interpretation-of-the-american-renaissance-9780691007304","title":"Ruthless Democracy A Multicultural Interpretation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReimagines the origins of \"American\" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. This book identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Timothy Powell's theoretically sophisticated and impressively researched book demonstrates that [multiculturalism] can ... produce literary criticism and historicism of the first order.\"--Christopher Diller, The New England Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements vii  Historical Interlude 3  Introduction Theorizing Ruthless Democracy 5  PART I: BEYOND NEW ENGLAND 25  Historical Interlude 27  Chapter One Nathaniel Hawthorne: History Imagined \"Fantastically Awry\" 30  Historical Interlude 49  Chapter Two John Rollin Ridge: Extending the Borders of \"America\" from New England to Alta California 52  Historical Interlude 75  Chapter Three Henry David Thoreau: \"The Only True America\" 77  PART II: TOWARD A TRANSNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF \"AMERICAN\" IDENTITY 101  Historical Interlude 103  Chapter Four Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Question of the American Colonization Society 106  Historical Interlude 131  Chapter Five William Wells Brown: Mapping the American Diaspora 133  Historical Interlude 151  Chapter Six Herman Melville: Ruthless Democracy 153  Notes 177  Bibliography 207  Index 221","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403671019863,"sku":"9780691007304","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691007304.jpg?v=1730484209","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ruthless-democracy-a-multicultural-interpretation-of-the-american-renaissance-9780691007304","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}