Sandra GUSTAFSON « Reconstructing the Republic in Fiction »

This lecture will focus on novels that explore different facets of democratic republican politics in the post-Civil War United States : Henry Adams’s Democracy provides an ironic insider’s view of a corrupt political system ; Albion Tourgée’s novels explore the complexities of race and reconstruction ; and Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition presents the breakdown of civic order and the rise of white supremacism in North Carolina.

Sandra Gustafson, professeure à University of Notre Dame, est invitée par le laboratoire IHRIM
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