Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline / Edition 1

by Lucy Maddox

Overview

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 50th anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window into 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 American Studies field. Contributors include Gene Wise, Henry Nash Smith, Bruce Kuklick, R. Gordon Kelly, Robert Berkhofer Jr., Barbara Welter, Linda Kerber, Nina Baym, Janice Radway, Alexander Saxton, Houston Baker, Jr., George Lipsitz, Ramón Gutiérrez, Kevin Mumford, and K. Scott Wong.

"If the frequency with which an essay is cited in subsequent scholarship and assigned as required reading in academic courses may be taken as an indication of the respect it has achieved and the importance it has been granted, then many of the essays in this volume have come to be considered milestones, even classics, in the scholarly literature of American studies."—from the Introduction by Lucy Maddox

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801860560
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	11/27/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.07(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lucy Maddox is Professor Emerita of English and American studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping and the editor of Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline.

Editorial Reviews

A dense but intellectually rewarding volume.
—Paul Giles, Journal of American Studies

From the Publisher

A dense but intellectually rewarding volume.

Journal of American Studies - Paul Giles

Not a map to campus, but a collection of 17 essays reprinted from American Quarterly the journal of the American Studies Association, selected to illustrate the development and growth of the academic discipline from 1957 to 1996. Among the titles are history and the American intellectual, myth and symbol in American studies, the Republican mother, and modernity and the Harlem Renaissance. Each essay is followed by a brief commentary placing it in the history of the field. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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