Research Catalog

Title

Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary / Lene M. Johannessen.

Author

Johannessen, Lene

Publication

Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, c2011.

Holdings

Details

Description

xiii, 166 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Annotation

Series Statement

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Re-mapping the transnational.

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• Exceptionalism > United States
• Individualism in literature
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• Transnationalism in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Electronic books

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781584659990 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1584659998 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781611680003 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 161168000X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781611680133 (e-book)
• 1611680131 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011003210