From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

by Lauter, Paul; Pease, Donald E.

• ISBN13: 9780822326762
• ISBN10: 0822326760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Paul Lauter, who has been a leading figure in the movement to expand the canonof American literature, is ideally placed to tell the story of American Studies. This book is news."--Cathy N. Davidson, Former President, American Studies Association

Author Biography

Paul Lauter is Allen K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.

Table of Contents

Practicing American Studies

Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies

American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class

Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies

Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook

Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park

American Studies in a Racialized World

American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads

Of Chodors and Capital

Fiction as Politics: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt

Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism

Reflecting On The Heath Anthology of American Literature

Melville Climbs the Canon

And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell

Cold War Culture and the Construction of Modernism

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