"Locating American Studies" is a collection of seventeen essays
first printed in "American Quarterly," the journal of the American
Studies Association. To mark the Association's celebration of its
50th anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by
a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window
into the history and the evolution of the practice of American
studies from its early, formational days to the present." Each
essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996, is accompanied
by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides
useful critical information for understanding the continuing
importance of the work to the American Studies field. Contributors
include Gene Wise, Henry Nash Smith, Bruce Kuklick, R. Gordon
Kelly, Robert Berkhofer Jr., Barbara Welter, Linda Kerber, Nina
Baym, Janice Radway, Alexander Saxton, Houston Baker, Jr., George
Lipsitz, Ramon Gutierrez, Kevin Mumford, and K. Scott Wong.
"If the frequency with which an essay is cited in subsequent
scholarship and assigned as required reading in academic courses
may be taken as an indication of the respect it has achieved and
the importance it has been granted, then many of the essays in this
volume have come to be considered milestones, even classics, in the
scholarly literature of American studies."--from the Introduction
by Lucy Maddox
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