Horizons of Enchantment Essays in the American Imaginary - Johannessen, Lene.; Project Muse. (Dartmouth College Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Exceptionalism -- United States; Transnationalism in literature; Individualism in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; American literature -- History and criticism; Electronic books