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Imagining America

Imagining America

Peter Conrad

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2026
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Literatura: historia y crítica
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9781032897967
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In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize.

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