Johannessen, Lene.

Horizons of Enchantment Essays in the American Imaginary / [Recurso electrónico] : Lene M. Johannessen. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2011. - 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.

Libro Electrónico

9781611680133 1611680131




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


Electronic books.

PS169.N35 / J65 2011

810.9