Horizons of enchantment
Subtitle: essays in the American imaginary
By: Lene M. Johannessen
Series: Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies; Re-mapping the transnational
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781584659990; 9781611680003; 9781611680133
Subjects: Exceptionalism; National characteristics, American, in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Transnationalism in literature; Individualism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: The imaginary; title: "Perpetual progress" in Drude Krog Janson's A saloonkeeper's daughter; title: Songs of different selves: Whitman and Gonzales; title: The "long empty moment": Richard Ford's The sportswriter; title: "Relations stretched out" in the American imaginary; title: Recalling America: Huntington and Rodriguez.