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Title:

Locating American studies : the evolution of a discipline / edited by Lucy Maddox.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

443 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

United States--Study and teaching.--Study and teaching.
Amerikanistiek.
États-Unis--Étude et enseignement.--Étude et enseignement.

Other Authors:

Maddox, Lucy.

Notes:

"Each of the essays first appeared in American quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Transformation of culture : three Chinese views of America / K. Scott Wong; commentary, Gary Y. Okihiro. History and the American intellectual : uses of a usable past / Warren I. Susman; commentary, Michael Frisch -- Cult of true womanhood : 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter; commentary, Mary Kelley -- Myth and symbol in American studies / Bruce Kuklick; commentary, Howard P. Segal -- Literature and the historian / R. Gordon Kelly; commentary, Sharon O'Brien -- Blackface minstrelsy and Jacksonian ideology / Alexander Saxton; commentary, Eric Lott -- Republican mother : women and the Enlightenment, an American perspective / Linda Kerber; commentary, Ruth Bloch -- "Paradigm dramas" in American studies : a cultural and institutional history of the movement / Gene Wise; commentary, Jay Mechling -- Melodramas of beset manhood : how theories of American fiction exclude women authors / Nina Baym; commentary, Maragaret McFadden -- Utopian impulse in popular literature : Gothic romances and "feminist" protest / Janice Radway; commentary, Christopher P. Wilson -- Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Houston A. Baker, Jr.; commentary, Robert B. Stepto -- New context for a new American studies? / Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr.; commentary, Barry Shank -- Listening to learn and learning to listen : popular culture, cultural theory, and American studies / George Lipsitz; commentary, Amy Kaplan -- Cultural locations : positioning American studies in the great debate / Alice Kessler-Harris; commentary, Cathy Davidson -- Community, patriarchy, and individualism : the politics of Chicano history and the dream of equality / Ramón Gutiérrez; commentary, Vicki L. Ruiz -- Homosex changes : race, cultural geography, and the emergence of the gay / Kevin J. Mumford; commentary, Robert K. Martin -- Transformation of culture : three Chinese views of America / K. Scott Wong; commentary, Gary Y. Okihiro.

ISBN:

9780801860560 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0801860563 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

98018959

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)