Brent E. Kinser is Associate Professor of English at Western Carolina University.

Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 '... this is an excellent study, presenting an innovative take on the Anglo-American relationship through the lens of the nineteenth century’s literary politicians. It presents the reader with a compelling argument, which not only has something to say about the position America occupied for the British intellectual community but also how this informed the British reform movement itself, on the path to democracy.' Journal of Transatlantic Studies

• Contents: Introduction: trial of the century; Thomas Carlyle: the accidental democrat; Anthony Trollope: strange paradoxes; Walter Bagehot: the case against America; John Stuart Mill: calculations and feelings; Conclusion: 'Fare-well' democracy; Bibliography; Index.

Brent E. Kinser is Associate Professor of English at Western Carolina University.

Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 '... this is an excellent study, presenting an innovative take on the Anglo-American relationship through the lens of the nineteenth century’s literary politicians. It presents the reader with a compelling argument, which not only has something to say about the position America occupied for the British intellectual community but also how this informed the British reform movement itself, on the path to democracy.' Journal of Transatlantic Studies

• Contents: Introduction: trial of the century; Thomas Carlyle: the accidental democrat; Anthony Trollope: strange paradoxes; Walter Bagehot: the case against America; John Stuart Mill: calculations and feelings; Conclusion: 'Fare-well' democracy; Bibliography; Index.

Brent E. Kinser is Associate Professor of English at Western Carolina University.

Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 '... this is an excellent study, presenting an innovative take on the Anglo-American relationship through the lens of the nineteenth century’s literary politicians. It presents the reader with a compelling argument, which not only has something to say about the position America occupied for the British intellectual community but also how this informed the British reform movement itself, on the path to democracy.' Journal of Transatlantic Studies

• Contents: Introduction: trial of the century; Thomas Carlyle: the accidental democrat; Anthony Trollope: strange paradoxes; Walter Bagehot: the case against America; John Stuart Mill: calculations and feelings; Conclusion: 'Fare-well' democracy; Bibliography; Index.