Why Is English Literature?: Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century

By Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

Book Overview

Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137379871
• ISBN13: 9781137379870
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"