1st Edition
American Literature and American Identity A Cognitive Cultural Study From the Revolution Through the Civil War
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
Biography
Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, USA.
