Were it a new-made world : Hawthorne, Melville and the un-masking of America
This thesis explores issues of literary criticism, aesthetics and nationalism, arguing that Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville were among the first major American fiction writers to challenge the myth of American Exceptionalism, not in terms of their overt criticism of American values or myths,...
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University of Essex
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528849 |