Book 2012

Against democracy

Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 2012

Democracy in literature
Literature
Politics and literature
Theory
History and criticism
Conservatism in literature

"This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow"--