am lit ao5

• American literature: "a story of differentiation [...] and establishment of a national social consciousness" Devoto, 1943
• “the legendary hero of America is the self-made man” Irvin G. Wyllie, 2014
• The melting pot “an ambiguous symbol of American unity” Heike Paul, 2014
• Frontiers and pioneer spirit

  Agrarianism, “a dominant discourse in the foundational phase of the republic” Heike Paul, 2014
• The “American farm turned into an icon of the rural population’s collective suffering” Heike Paul, 2014