Iulian Cananau is a senior lecturer in American Literature at the University of Gävle (Sweden). Previously, he worked as an assistant professor in American Studies at the English Department of the University of Bucharest. He was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (USA).

• Contents: Americanness – Concept – Literary history – American Studies – Conceptual history – Reinhart Koselleck – Ideology – Antebellum history – Canon – Americanism – Nation – Individualism – Representation – Race – Slavery – Sympathy – Womanhood – R. W. Emerson – H. Melville – H. D. Thoreau – F. Douglass – N. Hawthorne – M. Fuller – E. A. Poe – H. Jacobs – W. Whitman – H. Beecher Stowe.

Iulian Cananau is a senior lecturer in American Literature at the University of Gävle (Sweden). Previously, he worked as an assistant professor in American Studies at the English Department of the University of Bucharest. He was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (USA).

• Contents: Americanness – Concept – Literary history – American Studies – Conceptual history – Reinhart Koselleck – Ideology – Antebellum history – Canon – Americanism – Nation – Individualism – Representation – Race – Slavery – Sympathy – Womanhood – R. W. Emerson – H. Melville – H. D. Thoreau – F. Douglass – N. Hawthorne – M. Fuller – E. A. Poe – H. Jacobs – W. Whitman – H. Beecher Stowe.

Iulian Cananau is a senior lecturer in American Literature at the University of Gävle (Sweden). Previously, he worked as an assistant professor in American Studies at the English Department of the University of Bucharest. He was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (USA).

• Contents: Americanness – Concept – Literary history – American Studies – Conceptual history – Reinhart Koselleck – Ideology – Antebellum history – Canon – Americanism – Nation – Individualism – Representation – Race – Slavery – Sympathy – Womanhood – R. W. Emerson – H. Melville – H. D. Thoreau – F. Douglass – N. Hawthorne – M. Fuller – E. A. Poe – H. Jacobs – W. Whitman – H. Beecher Stowe.