Title Democracy and the novel : popular resistance to classic American writers / Henry Nash Smith.

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Description	viii, 204 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Issues -- Hawthorne: the politics of romance -- Madness of Ahab -- A textbook of the genteel tradition: Henry Ward Beecher's Norwood -- William Dean Howells: the theology of realism -- Guilt and innocence in Mark Twain's later fiction -- Henry James I: sow's ears and silk purses -- Henry James II: the problem of an audience.
Subject	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Popular culture.
	United States.
	History.
	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society.
Indexed Term	Fiction in English American writers, 1830-1977 - Critical studies
Other Form:	Online version: Smith, Henry Nash. Democracy and the novel. New York : Oxford University Press, 1978 (OCoLC)557968638
ISBN	0195023978
	9780195023978
	0195028961 (paperback)
	9780195028966 (paperback)