Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe

by J. Gerald Kennedy

Book Overview

After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195393694
• ISBN13: 9780195393699
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"