Locating American studies
Subtitle: the evolution of a discipline
By: edited by Lucy Maddox.
Contributors: Maddox, Lucy.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- Study and teaching.
Description: Locating American Studies is a collection of seventeen essays first printed in American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the association's celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window onto the history and the evolution of the practice of American studies from its early, formational days to the present." Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996, is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides useful critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the field of American studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Each of the essays first appeared in American quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association"--Pref.