Literature and Human Equality

by Stewart Justman

Book Overview

When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are "leveled with the rest of the world"--now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123258
• ISBN13: 9780810123250
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"