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1957: Can "American Studies" Develop a Method?
Henry Nash Smith
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1964: History and the Intellectual: Uses of a Usable Past
Warren I. Susman
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1966: The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860
Barbara Welter
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1972: Myth and Symbol in American Studies
Bruce Kucklick
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1974: Literature and the Historian
R. Gordon Kelly
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1975: Blackface Minstrelsy and Jacksonian Ideology
Alexander Saxton
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1976: The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment - An American Perspective
Linda Kerber
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1979: "Paradigm Dramas" in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement
Gene Wise
academy americanists anthropology articulate asa blackface consensus convention corporate currents david davis disciplines essay european fact family free generate harvard henry humanistic influential institutional integrating intellectual interdisciplinary john journal kelly leo marx mechling metaphor miller minnesota minstrel minstrelsy nash paradigm parrington penn pennsylvania quarterly radical republican robert rousseau san scholarly science seminar seventies shaped smith students teaching temper twentieth university war william yale york
1981: Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors
Nina Baym
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1981: The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest
Janice Radway
agrees antagonist aristocratic assertion beset coded conceptual confrontations conservative constructions convention defining demonstrates domination editors essay fact family fawcett feminine feminism feminist foil free fulfillment gender generate genre gothic henry heroine holt independence institutional intellectual legitimate love manhood melodramas modem nonetheless oppositions parrington phyllis prompt publishers quarterly refuses romances specificity study suggesting traits true univ university values varies victoria virgin whitney william writer york
1987: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
adams african articulate british collections concluding convention defining definitions deformation demonstrates devotion discursive domination dubois economic editors education essay expressive fact family feminine foil free gender generate gothic harlem heroine huggins independence institutional intellectual lewis liberation love mastery minstrel modem modernism negro problematic quarterly refuses renaissance romances scholarly southern space specificity spokespersons strategies study subsequent suggesting trilling united univ university varies war washington york
1989: A New Context for a New American Studies?
Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr.
argues conceptual constituted contested contextualism contextualist critique deconstruction defining demystification denies differing dilemmas disciplines discourse essay ethnicity fact foundation free fundamental gender generate gothic grounding harlem henry heroine historicization ideology institutional intellectual interpretive linguistic methodologies modem modernism opposing poetics postulates premises presumed problematics quarterly reconstruction reflexive renaissance representation rests rhetoric richard robert romances scholarly sciences sociology suggesting synthesis texts textualism textualist united viewpoint york
1990: Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory, and American Studies
George Lipsitz
argues conceptual constituted contested contexts contextualism contextualist crisis critique david deconstruction defining differing disciplines discourse economy education emergence essay ethnicity european explorations fundamental gender generate gothic grounding harlem henry heroine historicization ideology intellectual interpretive marxism methodologies michael modernism poetics premises presumed privileging problematics quarterly radical renaissance representation rests scholarly sciences sociology struggles students subjectivity suggesting texts textualism textualist theorists united univ university war york
1992: Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate
Alice Kessler-Harris
argues conceptual constituted construct contextualism correctness critique curriculum david deconstruction defining democratic differing disciplines discourse diversity economy education emergence essay ethnicity european explorations feminist fragmentation fundamental gender generate ideology incorporate intellectual interpretive john methodologies michael modernism multiculturalism myths perspectives poetics premises presumed problematics quarterly radical representation rests scholarly sciences shaping struggles students subjectivity suggesting synthesis texts textualism textualist unified united university war western york
1993: Community, Patriarchy and Individualism: The Politics of Chicano History and the Dream of Equality
Ramon A. Gutierrez
adelaida almaguer angeles anglo argues aztec barrio bcnitez calif castillo chicana chicano colonialism construct daughters defining del differing domination economy eds education essay ethnicity european explorations feminist gender generate ibid ideology immigrants intellectual interpretive journal latinas lesbian liberation love malinche mexican moraga multiculturalism norma oppression postmodernism quarterly quotation radical raza rechy san sexuality spanish struggles students subjectivity texts themes tina united university war york
1996: Homosex Changes: Race, Cultural Geography, and the Emergence of the Gay
Kevin J. Mumford
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1996: The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America
K. Scott Wong
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