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"Ruthless Democracy's argument demonstrates Powell's mastery of a challenging scholarly archive and his efforts to construct out of it a revisionist account of antebellum literary culture.... Powell's book is positioned to intervene in a debate concerning the future of American literary studies. Should the curricular changes Powell recommends in his multicultural approach to the American Renaissance be adopted ... , his work may become required reading in graduate as well as undergraduate courses."--Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College "Ruthless Democracy is a significant contribution to the various and valuable studies of nineteenth-century U.S. literature emerging in the last decade . . . for its rich development of a genuinely, persistently, and deeply multicultural historical context for reading U.S. literary texts."--Dana Nelson, University of KentuckyPowell, Timothy B. is the author of 'Ruthless Democracy A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance' with ISBN 9780691007298 and ISBN 0691007292.
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