America's preoccupation with problems of personal and national identity. Emergence in writings of the nineteenth century

Academic Paper from the year 1974 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (English Department), course: Seminar Professor Plumstead, language: English, abstract: In modern America, "identity" is a constant preoccupation, one might even say an obsession. Individuals, communities, racial minorities, even towns and cities (like Boston) and, of cou...