The American dream in selected American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : meanings, revision and displacement

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Myth is part and parcel of the American Dream.Right when james truslow adams published his The Epic of America, Where the term was first coined, he refers to the "heroic" legacy of American founding fathers, such as john winthrop, benjamin franklin, thomasjefferson and others.In drawing on puritan mythology to explain American history, Adams was not alone, nor thr first.many historians, such as alexis de tocqueville, frederick jackson turner, Andy koffman and others did the same.The mythical aspect of american history is always associated with the American Dream, which ie reflective of the American founding documents, whatever the idea it expresses.