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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963082703321

Autore

Lauter Paul

Titolo

From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park : activism, culture, & American studies / / Paul Lauter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2001

ISBN

9786612903410

9781282903418

1282903411

9780822380474

0822380471

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

973/.071/073

973.071073

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Social movements - United States - History - 20th century

United States Study and teaching History 20th century

United States Study and teaching Political aspects History 20th century

United States Civilization 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1. Practicing American Studies -- Ch. 1. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies -- Ch. 2. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class -- Ch. 3. Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies -- Ch. 4. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook -- Ch. 5. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park -- Pt. 2. American Studies in a Racialized World -- Ch. 6. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads -- Ch. 7. Of Chadors and Capital -- Ch. 8. Fiction as Exploration: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt -- Pt. 3. Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism -- Ch. 9. Reflecting on The Health Anthology of American Literature -- Ch. 10. Melville Climbs the Canon -- Ch. 11. And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell -- Ch. 12. Cold War Culture and the



Construction of Modernism.

Sommario/riassunto

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