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

• Superior document: Critical American studies series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Noble, David W.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Critical American studies series.
• Physical Description: xlvi, 352 p.

Table of 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.