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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
Sommario
Part I: Practicing American Studies
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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
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4. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook
5. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park
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Part II: American Studies in a Racialized World
6. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads
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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
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Paul Lauter
Riassunto
Revealing the evolution of an independent, highly interdisciplinary program with distinctive subjects, methods, and goals that are much different than the traditional academic departments that nurtured it, this book entertains as it offers a twenty-first century account of how and why Americanists at home and abroad do what they do.
