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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hogan, Patrick Colm (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. National characteristics, American, in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Race in literature. Equality in literature. Culture in literature. Ambivalence in literature. Literature and society > United States. American literature. Literature and society. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

A Note on Usage
Introduction: The Complex Ambivalence of Being Us
Chapter One: What is Identity? And What is American?
Chapter Two: The Last of the Mohicans : Senility and Love in a New Nation
Chapter Three: Hope Leslie: Critique, Defiance, and Ambivalence
Chapter Four: William Apess : A Native American Writes Back
Chapter Five: Uncle Tom's Cabin : The Childhood Model and Delegitimating U.S. Nationalism
Chapter Six: Harriet Jacobs, Women's Friendship, and Anti-Nationalism
Chapter Seven: Frederick Douglass, Manhood, and the Lost Home
Chapter Eight: The Scarlet Letter : Sexuality, Sin, and Spiritual Realization
Chapter Nine: Poe's "The Black Cat": An Allegory of Misogyny
Chapter Ten: Judith Sargent Murray on Women's Virtue and the Equality of the Sexes
Chapter Eleven: Moby Dick : Interracial Romance Beyond the Nation
Afterword: In Place of a Premature Conclusion.