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From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, and American Studies » (1st Edition)
Authors: Paul Lauter, Donald E. Pease
ISBN-13: 9780822326717, ISBN-10: 082232671X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Paul Lauter
Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and the General Editor of The Health Anthology of American Literature. His previous books include Canons and Contexts.
Book Synopsis
Explores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Practicing American Studies | |
| Ch. 1 | Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class | 34 |
| Ch. 3 | Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies | 64 |
| Ch. 4 | Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook | 82 |
| Ch. 5 | Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park | 99 |
| Pt. 2 | American Studies in a Racialized World | |
| Ch. 6 | American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads | 119 |
| Ch. 7 | Of Chadors and Capital | 139 |
| Ch. 8 | Fiction as Exploration: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt | 153 |
| Pt. 3 | Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism | |
| Ch. 9 | Reflecting on The Health Anthology of American Literature | 175 |
| Ch. 10 | Melville Climbs the Canon | 199 |
| Ch. 11 | And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell | 221 |
| Ch. 12 | Cold War Culture and the Construction of Modernism | 234 |
| Notes | 251 | |
| Index | 281 |
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