Locating American studies : the evolution of a discipline / edited by Lucy Maddox.
| Other author | Maddox, Lucy, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. |
| Description | 443 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Can "American studies" develop a method? / Henry Nash Smith; commentary, Lawrence Buell -- 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. |
| Abstract | Locating American Studies is a collection of seventeen essays first printed in American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the association's celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window onto the history and the evolution of the practice of American studies from its early, formational days to the present." Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996, is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides useful critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the field of American studies. |
| General note | "Each of the essays first appeared in American quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association"--Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Locating American studies. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Locating American studies. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 |
| Genre/form | Aufsatzsammlung. |
| Genre/form | Special publications (form) |
| Genre/form | History (form) |
| LCCN | 98018959 |
| ISBN | 0801860563 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801860560 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 9780801860560 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E175.8 .L78 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |