Bücher von Harold Kaplan

Originally published under title: The passive voice: an approach to modern fiction. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1966.

This book illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic 19th-century writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture.