Imagining America

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize.

Auteur

Peter Conrad is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature. He has been a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford (1970-3), was Hodder Fellow at Princeton University (1975-6) and has lectured at several American universities.