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Author:

Noble, David W.

Title:

Death of a nation : American culture and the end of exceptionalism / David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xlvi, 352 p. ; 23 cm.

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--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
United States--Civilization--20th century.
United States--Historiography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-335) and index.

Contents:

The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.

Series:

Critical American studies series

ISBN:

9780816640812 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0816640815 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780816640805 (acid-free paper)
0816640807 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50041517

LCCN:

2002009538

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)