The writing of America : literature and cultural identity from the Puritans to the present / Geoff Ward.
"In this study, Geoff Ward puts forward the claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is Paradise[superscript TM], and American ideology imprisons as it...
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Main Author: | Ward, Geoff, 1954- |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA :
Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers,
2002.
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