The American Vision: Actual and Ideal Society in Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Hardcover

Kaul, A. N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195661079 ISBN 13: 9780195661071

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

When it was originally published in 1963, The American Vision was awarded the Porter Prize and the Egleston History Prize from Yale University. This reprint makes available again Kaul's groundbreaking socio-historical examination of the work of Hawthorne, Cooper, Melville, and Twain.

About this title

About the Author:

A. N. Kaul is a Former Professor of English and former Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Delhi, as well as being a Former Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University.

Review:

?Kaul's study...is a happy marriage of art and politics....Socialists rather than Liberals or Conservatives will draw inspiration from Kaul's interpretation of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain, authors who confronted the society of their times, evaluated it, turned from it, and projected the image of an ideal community or an ideal social order.'?-Nation

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195661079
• ISBN 13: 9780195661071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352