Title:
Locating American studies : the evolution of a discipline / edited by Lucy Maddox.
Author:
Maddox, Lucy editor.
General Notes:
"Each of the essays first appeared in American quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association"--Preface, "Each of the essays first appeared in American quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association"--Preface
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Md. :
ISBN:
0801860563
9780801860560
Subject:
United States -- Civilization -- Study and teaching
Aufsatzsammlung
Contents:
Can "American studies" develop a method? / History and the American intellectual : uses of a usable past / Cult of true womanhood : 1820-1860 / Myth and symbol in American studies / Literature and the historian / Blackface minstrelsy and Jacksonian ideology / Republican mother : women and the Enlightenment, an American perspective / "Paradigm dramas" in American studies : a cultural and institutional history of the movement / Melodramas of beset manhood : how theories of American fiction exclude women authors / Utopian impulse in popular literature : Gothic romances and "feminist" protest / Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / New context for a new American studies? / Listening to learn and learning to listen : popular culture, cultural theory, and American studies / Cultural locations : positioning American studies in the great debate / Community, patriarchy, and individualism : the politics of Chicano history and the dream of equality / Homosex changes : race, cultural geography, and the emergence of the gay / Transformation of culture : three Chinese views of America /
Physical Description:
443 pages ;
Publication Date:
1999.
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