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Death of a nation [electronic resource] : American culture and the end of exceptionalism / David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz.

By: Noble, David W.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Critical American studies series: Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002Description: xlvi, 352 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century | American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | United States -- Civilization -- 20th century | United States -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 801/.95/09730904 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.