Nightmare Envy and Other Stories
American Culture and European Reconstruction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 March 2018
- ISBN 9780190209216
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 160x234x17 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Nightmare Envy and Other Stories is a study of Americanist writing and institutions in the 20th century. It traces the histories of American Studies, anthropology, cultural diplomacy, and literary criticism through World War II and the American occupations of Europe. the American occupations of Europe.
MoreLong description:
What has it meant to be an Americanist? What did it mean to be an Americanist through fascism, war, and occupation? Nightmare Envy and Other Stories is a study of Americanist writing and institutions in the 20th century. Four chapters trace four routes through the midcentury decades. The first chapter is the hidden history of American Studies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. The second is the strange career of national character in anthropology. The third is a contest between military occupation and cultural diplomacy in Europe. The fourth is the emergence and fate of the American Renaissance, as the scholar and literary critic F.O. Matthiessen carried a canon of radical literature across the Iron Curtain. Each chapter culminates in the postwar period, when the ruin of postwar Europe led writers and intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic to understand America in new ways. Many of our modern myths of the United States and Europe were formed in this moment. Some saw the United States assume the mantle of cultural redeemer. Others saw a stereotypical America, rich in civilization but poor in culture, overtake a stereotypical Europe, rich in culture and equally rich in disaster. Drawing on American and European archives, the book weaves cultural, intellectual, and diplomatic history, with portraits of Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, David Riesman, Alfred Kazin, and Ralph Ellison. It excavates the history of the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization, where displaced persons, former Nazis, budding Communists, and glad-handing Americans met on the common ground of American culture. Others found keys to their own contexts in American books, reading Moby-Dick in the ruins. Nightmare Envy and Other Stories chronicles American encounters with European disaster, European encounters with American fiction, and the chasms over which culture had to reach.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Americanists in Unexpected Places
Chapter 2: The Predicament of National Character
Chapter 3: Pictures from an Institution: The Salzburg Seminar & Postwar Mitteleuropa
Chapter 4: To the Heart of Europe: F.O. Matthiessen's Baedeker
Epilogue
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