Surveys how American literature has imagined the conditions of political belonging through the key tension between equality and freedom. Proceeds through close reading of key works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to examine how writers have sought to define freedom and equality, shaping and transforming the American understanding of these ideals and the relationship between them.
Surveys how American literature has imagined the conditions of political belonging through the key tension between equality and freedom. Proceeds through close reading of key works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to examine how writers have sought to define freedom and equality, shaping and transforming the American understanding of these ideals and the relationship between them.
