The uses of variety : modern Americanism and the quest for national distinctiveness /
"Carrie Tirado Bramen pursues the idea of variety through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Americanizing Variety
- I. The Ideological Formation of Pluralism. 1. William James and the Modern Federal Republic. 2. Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism
- II. The Aesthetics of Diversity. 3. The Uneven Development of American Regionalism. 4. The Urban Picturesque and Americanization
- III. Heterogeneous Unions. 5. Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory. 6. East Meets West at the World's Parliament of Religious. Afterword: In Defense of Partiality.