Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

by Priscilla Wald and Donald E. Pease

Book Overview

Ever since the founders drafted "We the People," "we" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to this project; in doing so, it revises the traditional narrative of U.S. literary history, restoring an essential chapter to the story of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315475
• ISBN13: 9780822315476
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"