"One of the best works on the law and literature. . . . Far from narrow, Thomas demonstrates, the concept of contract embraces a remarkable domain of thinking and writing about society in the late nineteenth century."--Eric J. Sundquist, author of "To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature" "This book will take its place as an indispensable text for theorists in the law, in philosophy, in social history, and in literary studies. . . . Thomas sees to it that social issues central to the last half of the ...
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"One of the best works on the law and literature. . . . Far from narrow, Thomas demonstrates, the concept of contract embraces a remarkable domain of thinking and writing about society in the late nineteenth century."--Eric J. Sundquist, author of "To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature" "This book will take its place as an indispensable text for theorists in the law, in philosophy, in social history, and in literary studies. . . . Thomas sees to it that social issues central to the last half of the nineteenth century are brought to bear upon our sense of current affairs."--Martha Banta, author of "Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History" "A lucid, learned, and important book. . . . With this study, Thomas once again establishes his position as a leader in the field of law and literature."--Amy Stanley, University of Chicago "A masterful and authoritative account of the intricate relations between literature and law in later nineteenth-century America. . . . Focusing on textual moments during the 1880s and 1890s when the failures of contract law and its promissory basis were dramatically revealed, Thomas casts a richly illuminating as well as searching light on the symbiosis of literary and legal thinking in the period, and thereby manages to construct what is potentially a different narrative configuration of later nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history."--Giles Gunn, author of "Thinking across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism" "This book showed me a whole new way of reading late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature. All of the chapters are strikingly original interpretations of the authors discussed. . . . The chapters on Howells and Chesnutt are absolutely brilliant and original. They tactfully but persuasively show the error of many previous readings and establish an extremely subtle and powerful way of understanding Howells' particular sense of the contingency of both personal and social life in the United States at that time and the opportunities for responsible innovation and commitment this contingency, in a precarious way, allowed....A major book on American culture... certain to become a crucial point of reference for students and scholars of United States fiction in this period."--J. Hillis Miller, author of "Topographies"
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 9780520216648.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 359 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 96003719 Type of material Book Personal name Thomas, Brook. Main title American literary realism and the failed promise of contract / Brook Thomas. Published/Created Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997. Description xiii, 359 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0520206479 (alk. paper) LC classification PS374. R37 T48 1997 LC Subjects American fiction--19th century--History and criticism. Realism in literature. Literature and society--United States--History--19th century. Promise (Law) in literature. Social ethics in literature. Contracts in literature. Law in literature. Social status in literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-347) and index. Dewey class no. 810.9/12 Geographic area code n-us---
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