American exceptionalisms from Winthrop to Winfrey / edited by Sylvia Söderlind and James Taylor Carson.
| Other author | Söderlind, Sylvia, 1948- |
| Other author | Carson, James Taylor, 1968- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Albany : State University of New York Press, |
| Description | x, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : the shining of America / Sylvia Söderlind -- Witch-hunting : American exceptionalism and global terrorism / Deborah L. Madsen -- Both East and West : Asia and the origins of American exceptionalism / James J. Allegro -- "The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind" : American universalism and exceptionalism in the Early Republic / Emily García -- Burlesquing America's errand : savage satire in Irving's History of New York and Melville's The confidence-man / Matthew Brophy -- Exclusion acts : how popular Westerns brokered the Atlantic diaspora / Christine Bold -- America as "world-salvation" : Josiah Strong, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the global rhetoric of American exceptionalism / Nathaniel Cadle -- American exceptionalism and immigration debates in the modern United States / Carl J. Bon Tempo -- Giving the people what they want : the African American exception as racial cliché in Percival Everett's Erasure / Anthony Stewart -- "Just an American boy" : American exceptionalism and Steve Earle versus capital punishment / Roxanne Harde -- Oprah's vigilante sentimentalism / Sara Humphreys -- The city under the hill : allegorical tradition and H.P. Lovecraft's America / Matthew Strohack -- Afterword : American exceptionalism in American intellectual conversation, or how I finally submitted to literary criticism / Terri Baker. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010026045 |
| ISBN | 9781438435749 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1438435746 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781438435756 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1438435754 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |