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American exceptionalisms : from Winthrop to Winfrey
- Title
- American exceptionalisms : from Winthrop to Winfrey / edited by Sylvia Söderlind and James Taylor Carson.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IAG 12-2740 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Description
- x, 268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the shining of America / Sylvia Söderlind -- Witch-hunting : American exceptionalism and global terrorism / Deborah L. Madsen -- Both East and West : Asia and the origins of American exceptionalism / James J. Allegro -- "The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind" : American universalism and exceptionalism in the Early Republic / Emily García -- Burlesquing America's errand : savage satire in Irving's History of New York and Melville's The confidence-man / Matthew Brophy -- Exclusion acts : how popular Westerns brokered the Atlantic diaspora / Christine Bold -- America as "world-salvation" : Josiah Strong, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the global rhetoric of American exceptionalism / Nathaniel Cadle -- American exceptionalism and immigration debates in the modern United States / Carl J. Bon Tempo -- Giving the people what they want : the African American exception as racial cliché in Percival Everett's Erasure / Anthony Stewart -- "Just an American boy" : American exceptionalism and Steve Earle versus capital punishment / Roxanne Harde -- Oprah's vigilante sentimentalism / Sara Humphreys -- The city under the hill : allegorical tradition and H.P. Lovecraft's America / Matthew Strohack -- Afterword : American exceptionalism in American intellectual conversation, or how I finally submitted to literary criticism / Terri Baker.
- Call Number
- IAG 12-2740
- ISBN
- 9781438435749
- 1438435746
- LCCN
- 2010026045
- OCLC
- 646308386
- Title
- American exceptionalisms : from Winthrop to Winfrey / edited by Sylvia Söderlind and James Taylor Carson.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Söderlind, Sylvia, 1948-Carson, James Taylor, 1968-
- Research Call Number
- IAG 12-2740