 | | British scholar John Cant examines the work of Cormac McCarthy in terms of their persistent critique of prevailing American cultural and political mythologies, including "the
'redeemer nation' of Puritan ideology; the democratic 'last best hope for mankind' of the revolutionaries who created the Republic; the pioneer
'civilizers of the Wilderness'; imperialist America's 'manifest destiny' to bring Christianity and capitalist vitality to
'lesser races' under the aegis of expanding the nation" and other comparable sustaining myths of American civilization. |
