American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

by Patrick Colm Hogan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032125683
• ISBN13: 9781032125688
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"