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

by Patrick Colm Hogan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367473798
• ISBN13: 9780367473792
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"