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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780021603321

Autore

Lauter Paul

Titolo

From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park [[electronic resource] ] : activism, culture, and American studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-90341-1

9786612903410

0-8223-8047-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Altri autori (Persone)

PeaseDonald E

Disciplina

973/.071/073

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - 20th century - United States

Social movements - History - 20th century

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part One. Practicing American Studies; Chapter One. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines:The Emergence of American Studies; Chapter Two. American Studies, American Politics,and the Reinvention of Class; Chapter Three. Versions of Nashville, Visions ofAmerican Studies; Chapter Four. Culture and Conformity in WartimeAmerica: My Junior High School Songbook; Chapter Five. Dinosaur Culture: From MansfieldPark to Jurassic Park; Part Two. American Studies in a Racialized World; Chapter Six. American Studies and Ethnic Studiesat the Borderlands Crossroads

Chapter Seven. Of Chadors and CapitalChapter Eight. Fiction as Exploration: The Novels ofCharles Chesnutt; Part Three. Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism; Chapter Nine. Reflecting on The Heath Anthology ofAmerican Literature; Chapter Ten. Melville Climbs the Canon; Chapter Eleven. And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen,May I Present Miss Amy Lowell; Chapter Twelve. Cold War Culture and theConstruction of Modernism; Notes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Explores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years.