Constituting Americanness
a History of the Concept and its Representations in Antebellum American Literature
by Iulian Cananau
"This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of Americanness. Following Reinhart Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichte, the author proposes that Americanness is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a historically specific semantic field. In the three decades before the Civil War, Americanness was constituted at the intersection of several concepts, in different stages of their respective histories; among these, nation, representation, individualism, sympathy, race, and womanhood. By tracing the representations of these concepts in literary texts of the antebellum era and investigating their over-lapping with the rhetoric of national identification, this study uncovers some of the meaning of Americanness in that period"--Provided by publisher.
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Constituting Americanness: a History of the Concept and its Representations in Antebellum American Literature
2015, Peter Lang GmbH
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
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