American Literature and the Dream [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 9 (4):701-701 (1956)
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An attempt to reinterpret American literature "as a kind of imaginative and experimental projection" of the "American Dream"--the ideal of perfect freedom and democracy. The author's critical and methodological principles, unfortunately, are never quite made clear.--L. H.

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