American literature: a vanishing subject? From: Daedalus | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Some fifty years after the political establishment of the United States, the concept of an American literature barely existed--an absence acknowledged with satisfaction in Sydney Smith's famous question posed in 1820 in the Edinburgh Review: "Who in the four corners of the globe reads an American book?" The implied answer was no one. Another twenty years would pass before this question was seriously reopened, along with the more fundamental question that lay behind it: whether a provincial democracy that had inherited its language and institutions from the motherland did or should ...

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