How Long to Read Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900

How Long Does it Take to Read Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900 by Nathan Wolff

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Description

Fits of Reason examines how a group of late-nineteenth-century American authors dramatized the tension between the desire for a fully rationalized politics and the emotional intensity that characterized the post-Civil War political public sphere. At their most bureaucratic, the novels of the Gilded Age offered a seductive fantasy of politics free of the messiness of democracy, fueled by a disgusted withdrawal from the rotten dealings of the spoils system and the outsized appetites of pork barrel politics. Yet in choosing the polemical novel, the populist allegory, and the sentimental romance as their platforms for this sanitized vision, these authors--Mark Twain, W.E.B. Du Bois, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry Adams, and Ignatius Donnelly--simultaneously revealed a competing conception of the political as a necessarily emotional and embodied process.

How long is Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900?

Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900 by Nathan Wolff is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900 aloud.

What Reading Level is Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900?

Fits of Reason: The U.S. Political Romance, 1865--1900 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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