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How ‘American’ is American Literature?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Benjamin Lease
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Extract

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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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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