Democracy's literature : politics and fiction in America

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Introduction: The art of democratic literature / Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance

Billy Budd and the politics of prudence / Dan Sabia

Yankee go home: Twain's postcolonial romance / Paul A. Cantor

Tom Sawyer: potential president / Catherine H. Zuckert

Patriots and philosophers: the idea of obligation and race in William Faulkner's Intruder in the dust / Joseph Romance

A story about nothing: two kinds of nihilists and one kind of Christian in Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people" / Peter Augustine Lawler

Ralph Ellison's invisible men / Pamela K. Jensen

Go tell it on the mountain: James Baldwin and the politics of faith / Wilson Carey McWilliams

Vexed genealogy: Octavia Butler and political memories of slavery / Lawrie Balfour

"Hello babies": Eliot Rosewater and the art of citizenship in the graduation speeches of Kurt Vonnegut / D.A. Hamlin

The American mystery deepens: hearing Toqueville in Don DeLillo's White noise / Patrick J. Deneen