@article{473501,
      author = {Johnson, Joel A.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/473501},
      title = {Beyond practical virtue a defense of liberal democracy  through literature / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Missouri Press,},
      abstract = {"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 state and the individual"--Provided by  publisher.},
      recid = {473501},
      pages = {xiii, 179 p.},
      address = {Columbia :},
      year = {2007},
}