Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

By Sarah M. Corse

Book Overview

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521570026
• ISBN13: 9780521570022
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"