American literature and American identity : a cognitive cultural study from the Revolution through the Civil War / Patrick Colm Hogan.
"American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex and often highly ambivalent treatment...
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Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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Physical Description: | viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Melville, Cooper, Sedgwick, Apess, Stowe, Jacobs, Douglass, Hawthorne, Poe, and Judith Sargeant Murray. Hogan focuses on the issue of how authors imagined American identity-specifically, as universal, democratic egalitarianism-in the face of the nation's clear and often brutal inequalities of race and sex. In the course of this study, Hogan advances our understanding of nationalism in general, American identity in particular, and the widely read literary works he examines"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | PS169.N35 A46 2020 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780367473808 0367473801 9780367473792 0367473798 |