Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Witch-hunting 15
6. Both East and West 31
7. “The Cause of America is in Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind” 51
8. Burlesquing America’s Errand 71
9. Exclusion Acts 93
10. America as “World-Salvation” 125
11. American Exceptionalism and Immigration Debates in the Modern United States 147
12. Giving the People What They Want 167
13. “Just an American Boy” 191
14. Oprah’s Vigilante Sentimentalism 207
15. The City under the Hill 223
16. American Exceptionalism in American Intellectual Conversation, or How I Finally Submitted to Literary Criticism 243
17. Notes on Contributors 255
18. Index 259