Title Patterns for America : modernism and the concept of culture / Susan Hegeman.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Description	x, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-257) and index.
Contents	Domestication of culture -- Modernism, anthropology, culture -- Dry salvages : spatiality, nationalism, and the invention of an "anthropological" culture -- National genius : Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the problem of the individual -- Terrains of culture : Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the spatialization of the culture concept -- Culture of the middle : class, taste, and region in the 1930s politics of art -- "Beyond relativity" : James Agee and others, toward the Cold War -- On getting rid of culture : an inconclusive conclusion.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
	Modernism (Literature)
	United States.
	Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Literature and anthropology.
	History.
	Culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Culture.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
	Civilization.
	Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States.
	Modernism (Aesthetics)
	Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
	Arts, Modern.
	Arts, American.
	Arts, American.
	United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
ISBN	0691001340 paperback alkaline paper
	0691001332 cloth alkaline paper