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Horizons of enchantment essays in the American imaginary /

Johannessen, Lene.

Horizons of enchantment essays in the American imaginary / [electronic resource] : Lene M. Johannessen. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2011. - xiii, 166 p. - Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies . - Re-mapping the transnational. .

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






American literature--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Individualism in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Exceptionalism--United States.


Electronic books.

PS169.N35 / J65 2011

810.9

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