Marks of Distinction: American Exceptionalism Revisited Book

	Acknowledgements	7
	Introduction: The Death and Life of an Exceptional Concept	11
	Recovering America's Historic Diversity: Beyond Exceptionalism	24
	A City Upon a Hill: American Literature and the Ideology of Exceptionalism	45
	Writing, Criticism and the Imagination of Nation: American Exceptionalism and the Evolution of American Studies	69
	Technology and Cultural Difference	93
	No Special Relation: British Perceptions of Ante-Bellum America's Growing Pains	112
	Newt's Clean Slate, or American Exceptionalism in the Information Age	137
	'A Divided Empire': African Americans, the South, and the Narrative of American Exceptionalism	167
	A College Upon a Hill: Exceptionalism and American Higher Education	197
	'They Came to Lawyers, You Know, What Can You Do?' American Exceptionalism and Judicial Activism	231
	'Against Any Winds that Blow': American Exceptionalism, Multiculturalism, and Judicial Review	257
	The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration	285
	Notes on Contributors	335