A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost
- ISBN-10
- 0674127757
- ISBN-13
- 9780674127753
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- David Bromwich
Description
For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.
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