TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Joel A.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Beyond practical virtue: a defense of liberal democracy through literature 
AV  - PS374.L42 J65 2007
U1  - 813/.409358 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Cooper, James Fenimore,
KW  - Twain, Mark,
KW  - Howells, William Dean,
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Liberalism in literature
KW  - Democracy in literature
KW  - Individualism in literature
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3570949
ER  -