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The uses of variety : modern Americanism and the quest for national distinctiveness  Cover Image Book Book

The uses of variety : modern Americanism and the quest for national distinctiveness

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  • ISBN: 067400308X (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-360) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Americanizing Variety -- I. The Ideological Formation of Pluralism. 1. William James and the Modern Federal Republic. 2. Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism -- II. The Aesthetics of Diversity. 3. The Uneven Development of American Regionalism. 4. The Urban Picturesque and Americanization -- III. Heterogeneous Unions. 5. Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory. 6. East Meets West at the World's Parliament of Religious. Afterword: In Defense of Partiality.
Subject: American fiction -- History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature
Difference (Psychology) in literature
Cultural pluralism in literature
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Multiculturalism in literature
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
Ethnic relations in literature
Minorities in literature
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library PS 374 D45 B73 2000 (Text) 26040002821235 Main Collection Volume hold Available -

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