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Legal Realisms - The American Novel under Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Legal Realisms - The American Novel under Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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United States historians have long regarded the U.S. Civil War and
its Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Literary
scholars, however, have yet to show how fully these years
revolutionized the American imagination. Emblematic of this moment
was the post-war search for a "Great American Novel"-a novel fully
adequate to the breadth and diversity of the United States in the
era of the Fourteenth Amendment. While the passage of the
Reconstruction Amendments declared the ideal of equality before the
law a reality, persistent and increasing inequality challenged
idealists and realists alike. The controversy over what full
representation should mean sparked debates about the value of
cultural difference and aesthetic dissonance, and it led to a
thoroughgoing reconstruction of the meaning of "realism" for
readers, writers, politics, and law. The dilemmas of incomplete
emancipation, which would damage and define American life from the
late nineteenth century onwards, would also force novelists to
reconsider the definition and possibilities of the novel as a genre
of social representation. Legal Realisms examines these
transformations in the face of uneven developments in the racial,
ethnic, gender and class structure of American society. Offering
provocative new readings of Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean
Howells, Helen Hunt Jackson, Albion Tourgee and others, Christine
Holbo explores the transformation of the novel's distinctive modes
of social knowledge in relation to developments in art, philosophy,
law, politics, and moral theory. As Legal Realisms follows the
novel through the worlds of California Native American removal and
the Reconstruction-era South, of the Mississippi valley and the
urban Northeast, this study shows how violence, prejudice, and
exclusion haunted the celebratory literatures of national equality,
but it demonstrates as well the way novelists' representation of
the difficulty of achieving equality before the law helped
Americans articulate the need for a more robust concept of social
justice.
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