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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Novel in the Era of Plessy
- Chapter 2. Perfect Knowledge: Sympathetic Realism between the Rational and the Real
- Chapter 3. Imperfect Knowledge: William Dean Howells, Perspectival Realism and Social Politics
- Chapter 4. A Double-Barreled Novel. Huckleberry Finn and the Great American Novel as Perspectival Realism
- Bibliography
- Notes
