Pt. 1. Practicing American Studies
Ch. 1. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies
Ch. 2. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class
Ch. 3. Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies
Ch. 4. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook
Ch. 5. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park
Pt. 2. American Studies in a Racialized World
Ch. 6. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads
Ch. 7. Of Chadors and Capital
Ch. 8. Fiction as Exploration: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt
Pt. 3. Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism
Ch. 9. Reflecting on The Health Anthology of American Literature
Ch. 10. Melville Climbs the Canon
Ch. 11. And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell
Ch. 12. Cold War Culture and the Construction of Modernism.