Constituting «Americanness» : A History of the Concept and Its Representations in Antebellum American Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Culture
ISBN-10
3631657692
ISBN-13
9783631657690
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 2015
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
484 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 21.50 x 2.30 cms
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 History of the AmericasSocial & cultural historyCultural studies
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Following Koselleck’s history of concepts, Americanness is approached as a semantic field at the intersection of several antebellum concepts (nation, representation, sympathy, race, and womanhood, among others), in the various stages of their respective histories. The book is also a period study of major American writers of the antebellum era.
"This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of Americanness. Following Reinhart Koselleck''s Begriffsgeschichte, the author proposes that Americanness is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a historically specific semantic field. In the three decades before the Civil War, Americanness was constituted at the intersection of several concepts, in different stages of their respective histories; among these, nation, representation, individualism, sympathy, race, and womanhood. By tracing the representations of these concepts in literary texts of the antebellum era and investigating their over-lapping with the rhetoric of national identification, this study uncovers some of the meaning of Americanness in that period"--Provided by publisher.
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