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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.

Mythology in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Mythology; Antebellum America; Vormärz Germany; Politics; National Identity; Narratology; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Karl Gutzkow; William Wells Brown; Heinrich Heine; America; Culture; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Literary Studies --- America. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Antebellum America. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Karl Gutzkow. --- Literary Studies. --- Narratology. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- National Identity. --- Politics. --- Vormärz Germany. --- William Wells Brown.