Download or read book Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing written by Nancy Armstrong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.