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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524669403321

Autore

Johannessen Lene

Titolo

Horizons of Enchantment : Essays in the American Imaginary / / Lene M. Johannessen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-87528-4

1-61168-013-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies

Disciplina

810.9

Soggetti

Exceptionalism - United States

Transnationalism in literature

Individualism in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

American literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: -- The imaginary -- "Perpetual progress" in Drude Krog Janson's A saloonkeeper's daughter -- Songs of different selves: Whitman and Gonzales -- The "long empty moment": Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- "Relations stretched out" in the American imaginary -- Recalling America: Huntington and Rodriguez.

Sommario/riassunto

A unique and original reading of the American imaginary