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How ‘American’ is American Literature?

Name: How ‘American’ is American Literature?
Creator: Benjamin Lease
Keywords: 0602 languages and literature, 05 social sciences, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, 06 humanities and the arts

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1985Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:English Today, volume 1, pages 39-42 (issn: 0266-0784, eissn: 1474-0567,

Authors: Benjamin Lease;

doi: 10.1017/s0266078400000183

How ‘American’ is American Literature?

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What do we understand nowadays by the phrase ‘American literature’? What factors have shaped it and made it distinctive and autonomous, and what relation does it now bear to the traditional conception of ‘English literature’?

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