TY - GEN N2 - The Civil War, reconstruction and the post-war amendments revolutionized American intellectual life, compelling new discussions of inequality and difference. 'Legal Realisms' explores how a new kind of American novel emerged in relation to contemporary aesthetic, legal, and political debates about the meaning of social representation in literature and public life. AB - The Civil War, reconstruction and the post-war amendments revolutionized American intellectual life, compelling new discussions of inequality and difference. 'Legal Realisms' explores how a new kind of American novel emerged in relation to contemporary aesthetic, legal, and political debates about the meaning of social representation in literature and public life. T1 - Legal realisms :the American novel under reconstruction / AU - Holbo, Christine, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PS377 ID - 899774 KW - American fiction KW - American fiction KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature. SN - 9780190604561 TI - Legal realisms :the American novel under reconstruction / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190604547.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190604547.001.0001 ER -