Lexington Books
Pages: 184
Trim: 6⅛ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0319-7 • Hardback • December 2001 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
Christine Dunn Henderson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and a fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc.
Chapter 1 The "Seer": The Democratic Poet's Recognition and Transcedence
Chapter 2 Huckleberry Finn and Twain's Democratic Art of Writing
Chapter 3 Tocquevillian Americans: Henry James, Daisy Miller, Pandora Day
Chapter 4 The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton's Critique of American Society
Chapter 5 Singing an American Song: Tocquellian Reflections on Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
Chapter 6 A Man of Will
Chapter 7 Percy and Tocqueville on American Aristocracy and Democracy
Chapter 8 Men and Money in Tom Wolfe's America
Chapter 9 The Technological Culture of Nihilism: John Updike's Protestant Pilgrimage and Walker Percy's Catholic Naturalism