03208nam 22006853u 450 991078002160332120230207223019.01-282-90341-197866129034100-8223-8047-110.1515/9780822380474(CKB)111056486755910(EBL)1167493(OCoLC)850212329(SSID)ssj0000159151(PQKBManifestationID)11151721(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159151(PQKBWorkID)10158049(PQKB)10704170(MiAaPQ)EBC1167493(DE-B1597)553701(DE-B1597)9780822380474(OCoLC)1110271410(EXLCZ)9911105648675591020131216d2004|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom Walden Pond to Jurassic Park[electronic resource] activism, culture, and American studiesDurham Duke University Press20041 online resource (298 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2676-0 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 CrossroadsChapter 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; IndexExplores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years.New AmericanistsAmerican literatureHistory and criticism20th centuryUnited StatesSocial movementsHistory20th centuryRegions & Countries - AmericasHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCUnited States - GeneralHILCCAmerican literatureHistory and criticismSocial movementsHistoryRegions & Countries - AmericasHistory & ArchaeologyUnited States - General973/.071/073Lauter Paul941503Pease Donald E1487400AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910780021603321From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park3790750UNINA