American literature and American identity : a cognitive cultural study from the Civil War to the twenty-first century /

"Hogan examines how important, post-Civil War authors imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism-when faced with the nation's often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality. In Hogan's analysis, this imagination is inseparable from the narrati...

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Main Author:	Hogan, Patrick Colm (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Series:	Narrative theory and culture.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. National characteristics, American, in literature. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. Race in literature. Sex in literature. American literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism.