American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Revolution Through the Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780367473792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Patrick Colm Hogan

Opis

American Literature and American Identity uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Melville, Cooper, Sedgwick, Apess, Stowe, Jacobs, Douglass, Hawthorne, Poe, and Judith Sargeant Murray

Spis treści

Introduction: The Complex Ambivalence of Being Us  1. What is Identity? And What is American?  2. The Last of the Mohicans: Senility and Love in a New Nation  3. Hope Leslie: Critique, Defiance, and Ambivalence  4. William Apess: A Native American Writes Back  5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Childhood Model and Delegitimating U.S. Nationalism  6. Harriet Jacobs, Women’s Friendship, and Anti-Nationalism  7. Frederick Douglass, Manhood, and the Lost Home  8. The Scarlet Letter: Sexuality, Sin, and Spiritual Realization  9. Poe’s "The Black Cat": An Allegory of Misogyny  10. Judith Sargent Murray on Women’s Virtue and the Equality of the Sexes  11. Moby Dick: Interracial Romance Beyond the Nation  Afterword: In Place of a Premature Conclusion