The Literary Quest for an American National Character, 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2008
Summary
“What then is the American, this new man?” This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these confrontations was a division between those who claimed national perfection had been obtained, and those w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780415963732 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0415963737 |
| Author: | Finn Pollard |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 660g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
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About The Author
Finn Pollard
Finn Pollard is a historian of the literature and politics of revolutionary and early national United States. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and has held lectureships at the universities of Glasgow and Newcastle.
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