Download or read book Constituting Americanness written by Iulian Cananau and published by Peter Lang Edition. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Koselleck's history of concepts, Americanness is approached as a semantic field at the intersection of several antebellum concepts (nation, representation, sympathy, race, and womanhood, among others), in the various stages of their respective histories. The book is also a period study of major American writers of the antebellum era.