American literature and American identity : a cognitive cultural study from the Civil War to the twenty-first century /

Patrick Colm Hogan.
Bok · Engelsk · 2022 · Literary criticism.

Annen tittel	American Literature and American Identity
Utgitt	New York, NY : : Routledge, , 2022.
Omfang	1 online resource
Opplysninger	"Hogan examines how important, post-Civil War authors imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism-when faced with the nation's often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality. In Hogan's analysis, this imagination is inseparable from the narrative structures favored by the human mind"--
Emner	Ambivalence in literature. American literature - History and criticism. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Literature and society - United States. Vis mer... National characteristics, American, in literature. Race in literature.
Sjanger	Literary criticism.
Dewey	810.9/35873
ISBN	1-000-47092-X. - 1-003-21198-4