John McGowan is John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics, also from Cornell University Press, and Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats.

Democracy's Children is a meditation on how intellectuals might try to achieve their political and social goals in the early twenty-first century.- William G. Tierney (Academe) Democracy's Children is one of the more distinguished recent examples of that curious academic genre, the book of linked essays. It is also one of the most consistently provocative and contrarian academic books I have yet come across.- Susan Read Baker (South Atlantic Review)

John McGowan is John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics, also from Cornell University Press, and Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats.

Democracy's Children is a meditation on how intellectuals might try to achieve their political and social goals in the early twenty-first century.- William G. Tierney (Academe) Democracy's Children is one of the more distinguished recent examples of that curious academic genre, the book of linked essays. It is also one of the most consistently provocative and contrarian academic books I have yet come across.- Susan Read Baker (South Atlantic Review)

John McGowan is John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics, also from Cornell University Press, and Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats.

Democracy's Children is a meditation on how intellectuals might try to achieve their political and social goals in the early twenty-first century.- William G. Tierney (Academe) Democracy's Children is one of the more distinguished recent examples of that curious academic genre, the book of linked essays. It is also one of the most consistently provocative and contrarian academic books I have yet come across.- Susan Read Baker (South Atlantic Review)