Horizons of Enchantment Essays in the American Imaginary /
Lene M. Johannessen.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 166 p.)
- Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies .
- Re-mapping the transnational. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: -- The imaginary -- "Perpetual progress" in Drude Krog Janson's A saloonkeeper's daughter -- Songs of different selves: Whitman and Gonzales -- The "long empty moment": Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- "Relations stretched out" in the American imaginary -- Recalling America: Huntington and Rodriguez.
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Exceptionalism--United States. Transnationalism in literature. Individualism in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. American literature--History and criticism.