Death of a nation American culture and the end of exceptionalism / [electronic resource] :
David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
- xlvi, 352 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical American studies series .
- Critical American studies series. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Criticism--History--United States--20th century. Nationalism and literature--History--United States--20th century. Literature and history--History--United States--20th century. American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
United States--Civilization--20th century. United States--Historiography.