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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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The American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 / by Murchison, Gayle Minetta

Table of Contents: “…Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky -- Boulanger and compositional maturity -- Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz? …”
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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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The American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 / by Murchison, Gayle Minetta

Table of Contents: “…Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky -- Boulanger and compositional maturity -- Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz? …”
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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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The Form of American Romance / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…The thematics of a form: Waverley and American romance --…”
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The American Symphony Orchestra : A Social History of Musical Taste / by Mueller, John Henry, 1895-1965

Table of Contents: “…Tastes can be accounted for -- History of music as performance -- Social evolution of the American symphony orchestra -- Profiles of major American orchestras -- Life spans of composers in the repertoire -- National sources of the orchestral repertoire -- The orchestra, concert folkways, and social life -- Musical taste and how it is formed.…”
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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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The Form of American Romance / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…The thematics of a form: Waverley and American romance --…”
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The American Symphony Orchestra : A Social History of Musical Taste / by Mueller, John Henry, 1895-1965

Table of Contents: “…Tastes can be accounted for -- History of music as performance -- Social evolution of the American symphony orchestra -- Profiles of major American orchestras -- Life spans of composers in the repertoire -- National sources of the orchestral repertoire -- The orchestra, concert folkways, and social life -- Musical taste and how it is formed.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

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German Writing, American Reading : Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 / by Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : made in Germany, read in America -- German women writers at home and abroad -- "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books -- The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home -- Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage -- Feminized history : German men in American translation -- Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91) -- German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908) -- Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917).…”
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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.…”
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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transnational American studies and the transpacific imaginary /…”
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