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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noble, David W.

Series:

Critical American studies series.

Critical American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Nationalism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Nationalism and literature.

Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and history.

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

United States.

United States--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Death of a Nation, David Noble presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9440-0

OCLC:

476095220