{"product_id":"the-illiberal-imagination-joe-shapiro-9780813940519","title":"The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Illiberal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how--and to what end--U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation. In conversation with intellectual, social, and labor history, this study tracks the representation of class inequality and conflict across five subgenres of the early U.S. novel: the Bildungsroman, the episodic travel narrative, the sentimental novel, the frontier romance, and the anti-slavery novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough close readings of the works of foundational U.S. novelists, including Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, James Fenimore Cooper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joe Shapiro demonstrates that while voices of economic egalitarianism and working-class protest find their ways into a variety of early U.S. novels, these novels are anything but radically dialogic; instead, he argues, they push back against emergent forms of class consciousness by working to naturalize class inequality among whites. \u003ci\u003eThe Illiberal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e thus enhances our understanding of both the early U.S. novel and the history of the way that class has been imagined in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813940516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813940519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 6.34w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2018","brand":"Joe Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947307008255,"sku":"9780813940519","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4bf00a46-55fd-4555-a02f-e969c57dc7de.jpg?v=1681517940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-illiberal-imagination-joe-shapiro-9780813940519","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}