Studies in American culture ; dominant ideas and images / Edited by Joseph J. Kwiat and Mary C. Turpie.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kwiat, Joseph J. (Joseph Jack), 1912-1997
Other Authors: Turpie, Mary C., 1909-1991
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1960]
Subjects:
United States > Civilization.
McDowell, Tremaine, > 1893-1959.
Physical Description:viii, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Can "American studies" develop a method? By H.N. Smith
  • How Americans see themselves, by R. Denney
  • The meaning of Lindbergh's flight, by J.W. Ward
  • Oneida's challenge to American culture, by M.Q. Sibley
  • The man with the hoe and the good machine, by D.R. Weimer
  • The novel and the "truth" about America, by W. van O'Connor
  • Literature and covert culture, by B. Bowron, L. Marx, and A. Rose
  • A southern mode of the imagination, by A. Tate
  • The vernacular tradition in American literature, by L. Marx
  • Henry Adams and the culture of science, by J.C. Levenson
  • Dreiser and Veblen and the literature of cultural change, by D.W. Noble
  • Robert Henri and the Emerson-Whitman tradition, by J.J. Kwiat
  • Singing immigrants and pioneers, by T.C. Blegen
  • The "theonomous analysis" of American culture, by C.H. Foster
  • American studies, past, present, and future, by R.E. Spiller.