Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age

by Nathan Wolff

Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat to citizens' agency and an inescapable part of the emotional life of democracy--then as now. In detailing the corruption and venality for which the period remains known, authors including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Adams, and Helen Hunt Jackson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198831692
• ISBN13: 9780198831693
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"