Transatlantic Currents Essays in Honor of David E. Nye.
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource (239 pages).
- European Views of the United States ; v.11 .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies -- JORN BRONDAL, ANNE MORK, KASPER GROTLE RASMUSSEN: Introduction -- I Technology and Energy -- DALE CARTER: The Mechanical Wedding: Some Robotic Engagements in 19th-Century American Culture -- HENRIK R. LASSEN: The Closing of the American Fireplace: A Technological Transition and Its Cultural Consequences -- JENNIFER L. LIEBERMAN: Blackout Narratives and Energy Fantasies: From the African American Press through Speculative Fiction JEFFREY L. MEIKLE: "You've Been on This Road Before": The Making of Laurie Anderson's 'United States' as an American Techno-Pastoral -- ANDERS BO RASMUSSEN AND OLE SONNICHSEN: Freedom on Four Wheels: The Ford Motor Company and William S. Knudsen's Education in Armament -- KASPER GROTLE RASMUSSEN: Negotiation and Nuclear Weapons: Carl Kaysen and the 1961 Berlin Crisis -- II Place, Space, and the Environment -- CLARA JUNCKER: Hemingway in Place: The Aging Warrior in 'Across the River and into the Trees' -- MARIANNE KONGERSLEV: Indigenizing the "American Landscape" THOMAS ZELLER: Loving Parks, Embracing Highways: Bernard DeVoto on Wilderness and Roads -- MARTIN V. MELOSI: Fresh Kills and Anti-Landscapes -- MILES ORVELL: Marching through Georgia: Photography and the "Destructive Analysis of War" -- KLAUS BENESCH: "How I Built This": Horatio Greenough, 'Walden', and the Search for an American Architecture -- III Theory and Method of American Studies -- JONATHAN COOPERSMITH: How Do I Teach with Thee? Let Me Count the Ways -- RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR.: The Perennial Crisis of American Studies and the 'Stereo Vision' of David E. Nye MARK LUCCARELLI: David Nye's Cultural History and the Natures of the American Republic -- MALCOLM MCCULLOUGH: Inhabiting Electricity: David Nye on the Built Environment -- Main Works by David E. Nye in Chronological Order -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Contributors to This Volume -- Backcover