The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature

by Sam B. Girgus

Book Overview

The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the "antidemocratic" image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism in American literature under the rubric of literary modernism.

The image of the individual self who retreats inward, conforming to a distorted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292739699
• ISBN13: 9780292739697
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"