Paul Lauter

From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

Activism, Culture, and American Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 187mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326762
• ISBN-10: 0822326760
• Artikelnr.: 21945928

Autorenporträt

Paul Lauter

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