A guided look at 25 literary works and their place in American identity
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A guided look at 25 literary works and their place in American identity
Thomas C. Foster organizes this work around twenty-five books presented as formative to the American character. Moving between literary analysis and cultural context, it considers how major texts have shaped the ways Americans read, teach, and understand themselves. The stated scope brings canonical works including The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick into a larger conversation about national identity, making the book less a survey of isolated classics than an inquiry into literature’s continuing public role.
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character.
Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and Americans. He illuminates how books such as The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, My
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