Beyond practical virtue [electronic resource] : a defense of liberal democracy through literature / Joel A. Johnson.

9780826217110 (alk. paper)
0826217117 (alk. paper)

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.

English

xiii, 179 p.

PS374.L42 J65 2007eb

813/.409358

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index.

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