From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park [[electronic resource] ] : activism, culture, and American studies
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| Autore: |
Lauter Paul
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| Titolo: |
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park [[electronic resource] ] : activism, culture, and American studies
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.071/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism - 20th century - United States |
| Social movements - History - 20th century | |
| Regions & Countries - Americas | |
| History & Archaeology | |
| United States - General | |
| Altri autori: |
PeaseDonald E
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Crossroads |
| Chapter 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; Index | |
| 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: | 1-282-90341-1 |
| 9786612903410 | |
| 0-8223-8047-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780021603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New Americanists