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From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park : activism, culture, & American studies /
Explores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | New Americanists.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Practicing American Studies
- Ch. 1. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies
- Ch. 2. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class
- Ch. 3. Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies
- Ch. 4. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook
- Ch. 5. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park
- pt. 2. American Studies in a Racialized World
- Ch. 6. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads
- Ch. 7. Of Chadors and Capital
- Ch. 8. Fiction as Exploration: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt
- pt. 3. Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism
- Ch. 9. Reflecting on The Health Anthology of American Literature
- Ch. 10. Melville Climbs the Canon
- Ch. 11. And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell
- Ch. 12. Cold War Culture and the Construction of Modernism.