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Constituting «Americanness»

A History of the Concept and Its Representations in Antebellum American Literature

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of . Following Reinhart Koselleck’s , the author proposes that is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a historically specific semantic field. In the three decades before the Civil War, was constituted at the intersection of several concepts, in different stages of their respective histories; among these, nation, representation, individualism, sympathy, race, and womanhood. By tracing the representations of these concepts in literary texts of the antebellum era and investigating their overlapping with the rhetoric of national identification, this study uncovers some of the meaning of in that period.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-65769-0 / 978-3631657690 / 9783631657690

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2015

Seiten: 280

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Iulian Cananau

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