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Interpersonal and place attachments are crucial in shaping national identity within American literature, as explored through ecocritical and psychoanalytic lenses. The study delves into the interplay of empirical science and the physical environment, examining non-human agency alongside human experiences. It highlights how early republic writers redefined modernity by altering representations of attachments, while 19th-century authors reimagined these connections, leading to a reconfiguration of views on Otherness and a critique of outdated concepts of difference.

This study examines the role interpersonal and place attachments play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Building on ecocritical and psychoanalytic studies, it integrates the language of empirical science and the physical realities of place, investigating non-human agency and that which exists beyond the material realm. It c