Harilaos Stecopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harilaos Stecopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harilaos |
| FAMILY NAME | Stecopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | STECOPOULOS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whiteness and American Literature
This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present – Whiteness and American Literature considers how a broad spectrum of novels, movies, short stories, television shows, poems, songs, and other works de…
Introduction from Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy
Stecopoulos, H., 2023. Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press. Excerpt used with approval of Oxford University Press
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jeffe…
History of the Literature of the U. S. South: Volume 1
South to the world: William Faulkner and the American Century
A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America
Journal Article A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America Get access A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America. Ed. by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 618 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3285-1.) Harilaos Stecopoulos Harilaos Stecopoulos University of Iowa Iow…
Telling America's Story to the World
Telling America's Story to the World Harilaos Stecopoulos (bio) The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989. By Nicholas Cull. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 600 pages. $106 (cloth). 560 pages.$43.50 (paper). Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960. By Andrew Falk. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 264 pages.$34.95 (clot…
Plantation America
Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies. Edited by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 521 pages. $26.95 (cloth). From Sidney Mintz to Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Americanists have recognized the plantation as a prime parameter of New World history.1 This system of semifeudal agriculture, dependent upon slavery and indentured labor, profitable to the extreme, provided the economic and social foundation for a wi…
Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black…
Race and the Subject of Masculinities
Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black…
Race and the Subject of Masculinities
Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black…
Plantation America
Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies. Edited by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 521 pages. $26.95 (cloth). From Sidney Mintz to Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Americanists have recognized the plantation as a prime parameter of New World history.1 This system of semifeudal agriculture, dependent upon slavery and indentured labor, profitable to the extreme, provided the economic and social foundation for a wi…
A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America
Journal Article A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America Get access A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book; Print Culture in Postwar America. Ed. by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 618 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3285-1.) Harilaos Stecopoulos Harilaos Stecopoulos University of Iowa Iow…
Telling America's Story to the World
Telling America's Story to the World Harilaos Stecopoulos (bio) The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989. By Nicholas Cull. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 600 pages. $106 (cloth). 560 pages.$43.50 (paper). Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960. By Andrew Falk. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 264 pages.$34.95 (clot…
South to the world: William Faulkner and the American Century
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jeffe…
History of the Literature of the U. S. South: Volume 1
Introduction from Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy
Stecopoulos, H., 2023. Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press. Excerpt used with approval of Oxford University Press
Whiteness and American Literature
This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present – Whiteness and American Literature considers how a broad spectrum of novels, movies, short stories, television shows, poems, songs, and other works de…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Law (3 works)