Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521579124)

This analysis of two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a new theory of national literatures, demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building. It accounts for cross-national differences and illuminates the historically constructed and symbolic nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state. High-culture national literatures are selected as different from other novels; popular-culture bestsellers are mass market commodities for the largest, least differentiated audience.

Author: Sarah M. Corse
ISBN-10: 0521579120
ISBN-13: 9780521579124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/1996
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.06w x 0.55d