Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions - Robert Shulman - Hardcover

The changing market society of the nineteenth century had a deep impact on American writers and their works. The writers responded with important insights into the alienation brought on by the country's capitalist development. Shulman uses theorists from Tocqueville to Gramsci and the New Left historians, as well as drawing on other recent historical and critical studies, to examine major nineteenth-century American works as they illuminate and are illuminated by their society. Using works by Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Chesnutt, Walt Witman, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser, he shows the urgency, energy, and variety of response that capitalism elicited from a range of writers.Shulman, Robert is the author of 'Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions - Robert Shulman - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780826206480 and ISBN 0826206484.