Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-280) and index.
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.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.