American Enchantment
Sizemore, Michelle
Proposes a new theory of the people as a process rather than a substance via analysis of early American literature~Advances an understanding of enchantment as a contingent state of embodied cognition~Contests traditional formulations of enchantment as a pre-modern or religious worldview--or as a necessarily delusive mental state--by conceiving of enchantment as a mood with distinct affective and temporal dimensions