American exceptionalisms
Subtitle: from Winthrop to Winfrey
By: edited by Sylvia Söderlind and James Taylor Carson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781438435749; 9781438435756
Subjects: Civilization; American National characteristics; Exceptionalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the shining of America / Sylvia Soderlind; title: Witch-hunting : American exceptionalism and global terrorism / Deborah L. Madsen; title: Both East and West Asia and the origins of American exceptionalism / James J. Allegro; title: "The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind" : American universalism and exceptionalism in the Early Republic / Emily García; title: Burlesquing America's errand : savage satire in Irving's History of New York and Melville's The confidence-man / Matthew Brophy; title: Exclusion acts : how popular Westerns brokered the Atlantic diaspora / Christine Bold; title: America as "world-salvation" : Josiah Strong, W.E.B. du Bois, and the global rhetoric of American exceptionalism / Nathaniel Cadle; title: American exceptionalism and immigration debates in the modern United States / Carl Bon Tempo; title: Giving the people what they want : the African American exception as racial cliché in Percival Everett's Erasure / Anthony Stewart; title: "Just an American boy" : American exceptionalism and Steve Earle vs. capital punishment / Roxanne Harde; title: Oprah's vigilante sentimentalism / Sara Humphreys; title: The city under the hill : allegorical tradition and H.P. Lovecraft's America / Matthew Strohack; title: Afterword : American exceptionalism in American intellectual conversation, or how I finally submitted to literary criticism / Terri Baker.