Title: Horizons of Enchantment
Subtitle: Essays in the American Imaginary
Description: Lene M. Johannessen's *Horizons of Enchantment* is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual, or the reliance on a kind of "modern magic" that can loosely be characterized as a fundamental and unwavering faith in the secular sanctity of the American project of modernity. In both her subject matter and perspective, Johannessen reconfigures and enriches questions of the transnational and exceptional in American studies.
Subjects: Exceptionalism, National characteristics, American, in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Transnationalism in literature, Individualism in literature, American literature, history and criticism, National characteristics, american
Places: United States