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).
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.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	American literature -- History and criticism.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Individualism in literature.
	Transnationalism in literature.
	Exceptionalism -- United States.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
	Exceptionalism. (OCoLC)fst01748515
	Individualism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00970342
	National characteristics, American, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033350
	Transnationalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01904970
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Johannessen, Lene. Horizons of enchantment. Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, ©2011 9781584659990 (DLC) 2011003210 (OCoLC)694394444
ISBN	9781611680133 (electronic bk.)
	1611680131 (electronic bk.)

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