American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781032078953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 274 str.

Patrick Colm Hogan

Opis

Hogan examines how important, post-Civil War authors imagined American identity—understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism—when faced with the nation’s often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality. In Hogan’s analysis, this imagination is inseparable from the narrative structures favored by the human mind.

O autorze

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, where he is on the faculty of the English Department and the Program in Cognitive Science. He is the author of over 20 books, including Literature and Emotion (2018) and American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Revolution through the Civil War (2020).