Johannessen, Lene.

Horizons of Enchantment : Essays in the American Imaginary / Lene M. Johannessen. - 1 online resource (168 pages). - 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.

Open Access

9781611680133




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