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Autore |
Noble David W |
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Titolo |
Death of a nation [[electronic resource] ] : American culture and the end of exceptionalism / / David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical American studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criticism - United States - History - 20th century |
Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century |
American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
United States Civilization 20th century |
United States Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Death of a Nation, David Noble presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career. |
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