Death of a nation : American culture and the end of exceptionalism / / David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz

• Autore: Noble David W
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 801/.95/09730904
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 20th century; United States Historiography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Death of a nation
• ISBN: 0-8166-9440-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814160303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical American studies series.