From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, and American Studies

Paul Lauter

Published by Duke University Press 2001

From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

Activism, Culture, and American Studies

Paul Lauter
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380474

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About this book

Explores the changes that have occurred in the field of American Studies over the past 40 years.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“A rich and multifaceted assessment of the field. By interspersing chapters that focus in great detail on a single aspect of American Studies with broader chapters that help contextualize his arguments, Lauter has provided readers with a remarkably thorough, exciting, and satisfying work.”—Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside

“Every page of this book gives evidence of an academic life spent in and for American Studies. Lauter covers a wide range of topics between the politics of cultural and literary texts and the politics in and beyond the classroom. In a sense, it offers the story of a lifetime—his own and that of his generation.”—Heinz Ickstadt, Freie Universität Berlin

“Paul Lauter, who has been a leading figure in the movement to expand the canon of American literature, is ideally placed to tell the story of American Studies. This book is news.”—Cathy N. Davidson, Former President, American Studies Association

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Practicing American Studies
INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter One. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter Two. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Chapter Three. Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter Four. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter Five. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Part Two. American Studies in a Racialized World
INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter Six. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter Seven. Of Chadors and Capital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter Eight. Fiction as Exploration: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Part Three. Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism
INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter Nine. Reflecting on The Heath Anthology of American Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter Ten. Melville Climbs the Canon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter Eleven. And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter Twelve. Cold War Culture and the Construction of Modernism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 298
Illustrations
- Other: 25 photographs

eBook

Published: April 17, 2001
ISBN: 9780822380474