100 Years of the American Dream

Representations and Conceptions in American Literature, 1919-2019

Edited By: Michael Kearney

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This collection offers examinations of the American Dream across a diverse range of works. Each chapter’s innovative insights transcend literary critique to touch upon issues of economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion.

This collection offers examinations of the concept of the American Dream across a broad and diverse range of works. The analytical methods utilized by the…

This collection offers examinations of the concept of the American Dream across a broad and diverse range of works. The analytical methods utilized by the authors, who are all clearly extremely knowledgeable experts in their fields, are as unique as the content they examine is varied. Each chapter offers innovative insights, which, while founded on literary critique, transcend the field of literature and touch upon issues related to economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion, to name but a few.

Michael Kearney is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Kogakuin University, Japan. He received his PhD in Literary and Critical Theory from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and has published articles and chapters on such topics as identity formation, literature, auditory art, retinal art, and philosophy. He is the editor of From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward and the author of Four Letter Words (a book of poetry), and he frequently contributes texts, retinal art, and auditory art to the magazine One Imperative. He is also the founder of The Symbolic Order Project, a collaborative venture examining the intersections of image, sound, and text.

Setsuko Adachi, Michael Begnal, Brian Coates, Jeremy Fernando, Maria Kranidis, Jeffrey Markovitz, Kei Saito, Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff, Michael Kearney