From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park : activism, culture, & American studies / / Paul Lauter
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| Autore: |
Lauter Paul
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| Titolo: |
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park : activism, culture, & American studies / / Paul Lauter
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.071/073 |
| 973.071073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Social movements - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Study and teaching History 20th century |
| United States Study and teaching Political aspects History 20th century | |
| United States Civilization 1945- | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park |
| ISBN: | 9786612903410 |
| 9781282903418 | |
| 1282903411 | |
| 9780822380474 | |
| 0822380471 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910963082703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.