Chapter 4: Novel Democracy: Readers, Evidence, and the CommonplaceBook of Elizabeth Phillips Payson, 1806–25.
The article examines the relationship between novel reading and the development of a democratic conscience, exploring how novels enable readers to approach evidence with nuance and critical thinking. It discusses the role of novels in assessing evidence, contrasting the traditional domains of scienc...
| Published in: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 75 - 95 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2023
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