American exceptionalisms : from Winthrop to Winfrey / edited by Sylvia Söderlind and James Taylor Carson.
An incisive and wide ranging look at a powerful force and myth in American culture and history, American Exceptionalisms reveals the centuries-old persistence of the notion that the United States is an exceptional nation, in being both an example to the world and exempt from the rules of internation...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the shining of America / Sylvia Söderlind
- Witch-hunting : American exceptionalism and global terrorism / Deborah L. Madsen
- Both East and West : Asia and the origins of American exceptionalism / James J. Allegro
- "The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind" : American universalism and exceptionalism in the Early Republic / Emily García
- Burlesquing America's errand : savage satire in Irving's History of New York and Melville's The confidence-man / Matthew Brophy
- Exclusion acts : how popular Westerns brokered the Atlantic diaspora / Christine Bold
- America as "world-salvation" : Josiah Strong, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the global rhetoric of American exceptionalism / Nathaniel Cadle
- American exceptionalism and immigration debates in the modern United States / Carl J. Bon Tempo
- Giving the people what they want : the African American exception as racial cliché in Percival Everett's Erasure / Anthony Stewart
- "Just an American boy" : American exceptionalism and Steve Earle versus capital punishment / Roxanne Harde
- Oprah's vigilante sentimentalism / Sara Humphreys
- The city under the hill : allegorical tradition and H.P. Lovecraft's America / Matthew Strohack
- Afterword : American exceptionalism in American intellectual conversation, or how I finally submitted to literary criticism / Terri Baker.