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Why is English Literature?

Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century
By:T. Bonfiglio
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137379870
eText ISBN:9781137375544
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.