Were It a New-Made World: Hawthorne, Melville and the Unmasking of America

Utilizing Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson’s definition of “nationalism,” this article concerns American nationalism and aesthetics and argues that Hawthorne and Melville were among the first American imaginative writers to challenge the myth of American Exceptionalism in terms of their aestheti...

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Main Author: Michael Broek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2010-02-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/7757
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