What makes an American "classic"?

dc.bibliographicCitation.article	1
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	76
dc.contributor.author	Domeneghini, Caterina
dc.contributor.author	Barnes, Claire
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-10T07:51:30Z
dc.date.available	2025-03-10T07:51:30Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	American “classics,” and “classic” definitions of America and its people, are often tied to an apparently inescapable, ineffable sense of greatness. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN has resurfaced as the mantra of 2025, with the newly elected President’s promise to restore a broken nation, elevating it above time, and in defiance of his own criminal record, even above the law. The slogan echoes some of the tones, if not the politics, of the preface of Leaves of Grass (1855), when Walt Whitman wrote, “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem…”
dc.identifier.doi	10.18422/76-2099
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3418
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.issn	2750-7327
dc.relation.journal	New American Studies Journal
dc.relation.journalalt	A Forum
dc.rights	L::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:320
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810
dc.subject.field	americanstudies
dc.subject.field	literarystudies
dc.subject.field	culturalstudies
dc.subject.field	politicalscience
dc.title	What makes an American "classic"?
dc.type	article
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
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