| Description |
viii, 233 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Initiated when Professor Tremaine McDowell announced his premature retirement ... from the post ... as chairman of the Program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization.
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McDowell, Tremaine, 1893-1959.
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| Added Author |
Turpie, Mary C., editor.
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