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

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

The Poetics of Transition

Jonathan Levin

• Paperback | 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

Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain

Kate A Baldwin

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors-and on twentieth-century American debates a... Lees meer

Sentimental Collaborations

Mary Louise Kete

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University's commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore sha... Lees meer

The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Stacey Margolis

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an... Lees meer

An Absent Presence

Caroline Chung Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But An Absent Presence ... Lees meer

Interior States

Christopher Castiglia

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens' democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democrat... Lees meer

New World Drama

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Americanists
• In New World Drama , Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation o... Lees meer

National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus... Lees meer

Around Quitting Time

Robert Seguin

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Giv... Lees meer

Indian Nation

Cheryl Walker

• Paperback | 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 Color of Sex

Mason Stokes

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality... Lees meer

Blood Narrative

Chadwick Allen

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indian... Lees meer

Bringing It All Back Home

Lawrence Grossberg

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• As one of the founding figures of cultural studies, Lawrence Grossberg was an early participant in the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Stu... Lees meer

Sentimental Materialism

Lori Merish

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth ce... Lees meer

Black Empire

Michelle Ann Stephens

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In Black Empire , Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of "transnational blackness" that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from t... Lees meer

Living Up to the Ads

Simone Weil Davis

• Paperback | 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

Hemispheric Imaginings

Gretchen Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would ... Lees meer

The Errant Art of Moby-Dick

William V Spanos

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a medit... Lees meer

The Futures of American Studies

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds... Lees meer

Translating Empire

Laura Lomas

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In Translating Empire , Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, on... Lees meer

New World Drama

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• In New World Drama , Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation o... Lees meer

Women's Camera Work

Judith Fryer Davidov

• Paperback | Engels | New Americanists
• Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of ... Lees meer