Death of a Nation : American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism

Foreword: The Unpredictable Creativity of David Noble ix George Lipsitz Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Space Travels xxiii The Birth and Death of American History 1(37) Historians Leaving Home, Killing Fathers 38(41) The Crisis of American Literary Criticism from World War I to World War II 79(27) Elegies for the National Landscape 106(23) The New Literary Criticism: The Death of the Nation Born in New England 129(22) The Vanishing National Landscape: Painting, Architecture, Music, and Philosophy in the Early Twentieth Century 151(64) The Disintegration of National Boundaries: Literary Criticism in the Late Twentieth Century 215(35) The End of American History 250