Paul Lauter

From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, & American Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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"A rich and multifaceted assessment of the field. By interspersing chapters that focus in great detail on a single aspect of American Studies with broader chapters that help contextualize his arguments, Lauter has provided readers with a remarkably thorough, exciting, and satisfying work."--Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside

Produktdetails

• New Americanists
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326717
• ISBN-10: 082232671X
• Artikelnr.: 21842583

Autorenporträt

Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and the General Editor of The Health Anthology of American Literature. His previous books include Canons and Contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

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