Constituting «Americanness»: A History of the Concept and Its Representations in Antebellum American Literature in Bloomington, MN

Following Koselleck's history of concepts,
Americanness
is approached as a semantic field at the intersection of several antebellum concepts (nation, representation, sympathy, race, and womanhood, among others), in the various stages of their respective histories. The book is also a period study of major American writers of the antebellum era.