“The Mound of His Back”: The Profession of Literature and the Fear of the Mob
Recent novels respond to the current crisis of democracy by invoking literary fiction as a means to cultivate empathy and as a model for more inclusive forms of community. But such novels also often defend the mission of literature by casting service workers and popular voters as foils and by defini...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | American literary history 2023-02, Vol.35 (1), p.350-363 |
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