Title
- Critical American Studies Series
Attribution
David W. Noble ; foreword by George LipsitzPublication Details
BookUniversity of Minnesota Press2002Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS78 .N63 2002 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. While Noble illustrates the challenges that the paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Criticism — United States — History — 20th century
- Nationalism and literature — United States — History — 20th century
- Literature and history — United States — History — 20th century
- American literature — History and criticism — Theory, etc
- United States — Civilization — 20th century
- United States — Historiography
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Contents
- Foreword: The Unpredictable Creativity of David Noble / George Lipsitz
- Introduction: Space Travels
- 1. The Birth and Death of American History
- 2. Historians Leaving Home, Killing Fathers
- 3. The Crisis of American Literary Criticism from World War I to World War II
- 4. Elegies for the National Landscape
- 5. The New Literary Criticism: The Death of the Nation Born in New England
- 6. The Vanishing National Landscape: Painting, Architecture, Music, and Philosophy in the Early Twentieth Century
- 7. The Disintegration of National Boundaries: Literary Criticism in the Late Twentieth Century
- 8. The End of American History
ISBN
- 0816640815
- 0816640807
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