ISBN : 9780190209209
Drawing on a series of transatlantic encounters in the years following 1945, George Blaustein chronicles how issues like race, gender, and empire, as they relate to the United States, became areas of intense interest among members of the European academy.
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; Bibliography