Wow! eBookCivic Myths: A Law-and-literature Approach to Citizenship
Hardcover: 315 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (September 01 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807831530
ISBN-13: 9780807831533
Civic Myths: A Law-and-literature Approach to Citizenship
Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship
Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship
Author(s): Brook Thomas (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2007
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 314 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807858463
- ISBN-13: 9780807858462
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“A truly interdisciplinary book as comfortable analyzing the consequences of landmark legal decisions as it is the intricacies of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. . . . [Thomas] parses legal language and its real-world political ramifications and then connects this sort of culture making to that found in literary texts. The result is exciting: not only does he demonstrate the impact such laws had on debates about citizenship, but he also suggests fresh ways of understanding texts long saturated with commentary.”–American Literature
“Embraces the possibility of the literary artist as civic referee. . . . Illuminates and complicates the various ideals of citizenship. . . [by guiding] readers through the complex legal and historical terrain in which those ideals have been revealed. . . . A demanding and productive model of scholarship, as well as an insistent call for applying that scholarship to civic practice.” —
West Virginia HistoryAbout the Author
Brook Thomas, Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, has written five books, including American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract.
