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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 narrative structures favored by the human mind"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
National characteristics, American, in literature
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature