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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0226424227.
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As New in J As New jacket. Large 8vo Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xix, 298 pp, preface, acknowledgments, 1. Demmocratic Humanism and American Literature; 2. Emerson: The Double Consciousness; 3. Thoreau: The Walden of the World; 4. Cooper, Poe, and X. H. Lawrence: The Myth of America; 5. Hawthorne: The Need to Become Human; 6. Melville: "one Royal Mantle of Humanity"; 7. Whitman: "Song of the Answerer"; 8. Huckleberry Finn: What It Means to Be Civilized; 9. Henry James: Conscience and Freedom; index. First Edition, 1972. "The author illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic nineteenth-century writers. These classic writers devoted their work to examining this dialectic of values; Kaplan sees their complex and polarized democratic consciousness as seminal in the imaginative tradition they generated." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with gilt rectangles and blind stamped lettering on front boars, and gilt lettering to spine.