From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

Paul Lauter

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging col... Lees meer

Italian Signs, American Streets

Fred L Gardaphé

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Ita... Lees meer

Indian Nation

Cheryl Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, ... Lees meer

The First Woman in the Republic

Carolyn L Karcher

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia... Lees meer

Virtual Americas

Paul Giles

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comp... Lees meer

Italian Signs, American Streets

Fred L Gardaphé

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Ita... Lees meer

Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, Or, Abjection in America

John Limon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the sp... Lees meer

Raising the Dead

Sharon Patricia Holland

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and c... Lees meer

Reconstituting the American Renaissance

Jay Grossman

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Eme... Lees meer

Assimilating Asians

Patricia P Chu

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing... Lees meer

Exceptional State

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Exceptional State analyzes the nexus of culture and contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism. The contributors, established and emerging cultur... Lees meer

Negative Liberties

Cyrus R K Patell

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happ... Lees meer

Cultures of United States Imperialism

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spo... Lees meer

Affirmative Reaction

Hamilton Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts... Lees meer

Utopia and Cosmopolis

Thomas Peyser

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitude... Lees meer

Egypt Land

Scott Trafton

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-cen... Lees meer

The Seventies Now

Stephen Paul Miller

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Most would agree that American culture changed dramatically from the 1960s to the 1980s. Yet the 1970s, the decade "in between," is still somehow thou... Lees meer

Coyote Country

Arnold E Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• For most North Americans--Canadians as well as Americans--the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good ... Lees meer

The Sign of the Cannibal

Geoffrey Sanborn

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenmen... Lees meer

Living Up to the Ads

Simone Weil Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that... Lees meer

National Manhood

Dana D Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the ... Lees meer

The Sign of the Cannibal

Geoffrey Sanborn

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenmen... Lees meer

Forgotten Readers

Elizabeth McHenry

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active Afric... Lees meer

The Poetics of Transition

Jonathan Levin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a the... Lees meer