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Afterward also published in The Massachusetts Review (as source)
Dissertation and lectures formed the foundation 15 years prior to writing the book. Initially based on an "exploratory study of literary responses to the onset of industrialism in America"(367)
Wrote the book while taking a year off (408)
Synopsis
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Analysis
Noble, David W. (2002). Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN1452906033.
Segal, Howard P. (1994). Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN0870238825.
Reception
Reviews
Paul Levine: precedents for "this line of inquiry"—Parrington, Smith, Lewis, Morton, White; fails to examine 17th century American authors; "overlong and underfed"
David E. Smith: "histories of an idea"; Jefferson; "society of the middle landscape"
Legacy
Last major work from the myth and symbol school of American Studies (Noble 2002])
