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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Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA :
Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Maps and legends
- American literature and the body electric
- Melville: crises in representation
- 'Eden is burning': literature of the popular imagination
- Going fishing: Harry Smith, the Anthology of American Folk Music, and the fan
- Modernism and the subversive imagination
- 'Dedicated to America, whatever that is': contemporary literature and the egress.