Constituting "Americanness" - A History of the Concept and Its Representations in Antebellum American Literature (Hardcover, New edition)

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 overlapping with the rhetoric of national identification, this study uncovers some of the meaning of Americanness in that period.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	American Culture, 11
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Iulian Cananau
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-65769-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-631-65769-2
Barcode:	9783631657690

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