| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Exceptionalism -- United States
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National characteristics, American.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Civilization
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Exceptionalism
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National characteristics, American
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Söderlind, Sylvia, 1948-
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Carson, James Taylor, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9781438435763 |
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1438435762 |
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