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Democracy and Literature in America
From the time American literature began to assume discernible outlines in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, writers and critics have pondered the extent to which democracy as a political institution has affected literary expression in the United States. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American literature, U. S. History
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