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American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Revolution Through the Civil War

American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Revolution Through the Civil War

Hogan, Patrick Colm

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367473798
ISBN13: 9780367473792
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 10 2020
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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