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

Publication Info.	Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, [2011]
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages).
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Series	Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
	Re-mapping the transnational.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary	This title is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual.
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Subject	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Individualism in literature.
	Individualism in literature.
	Transnationalism in literature.
	Transnationalism in literature.
	Exceptionalism -- United States.
	Exceptionalism.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Johannessen, Lene. Horizons of enchantment. Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, ©2011 9781584659990 (DLC) 2011003210 (OCoLC)694394444
ISBN	9781611680133 (electronic book)
	1611680131 (electronic book)
	9781611680003 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	1584659998

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

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