American Moderns (eBook)

Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

Christine Stansell (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3366-5 (ISBN)

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In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods--home to art, poetry, cafes, and cabarets in the European tradition--provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. Some called themselves Bohemians, some members of the avant-garde, but all took pleasure in the exotic, new, and forbidden. In American Moderns, Christine Stansell tells the story of the most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which--thanks to cultural icons such as Eugene O'Neill, Isadora Duncan, and Emma Goldman--became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom. Stansell eloquently explains how the mixing of old and new worlds, politics and art, and radicalism and commerce so characteristic of New York shaped the modern American urban scene. American Moderns is both an examination and a celebration of a way of life that's been nearly forgotten.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 37 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abraham Cahan • activism • African Americans • African Americans (blacks) • Alexander Berkman • American (magazine) • Anderson, Margaret • Anecdote • Anglo-Saxonism • Anna Strunsky • anthony comstock • Babette • Beat Movement • Ben Reitman • Bercovici, Naomi • Bill Haywood • Bloomsbury Group • bolsheviks • bourgeois culture • Bourgeoisie • Bryant, Louise • Career • Censorship • Civilization • Civil War • Commercial Advertiser • Communists • comrade • cooperative housekeeping • Cosmopolitanism • Crystal Eastman • Dadaists • Decadence • decadents • Democracy • Djuna Barnes • Dorothy Day • Duncan, Isadora • Easter Rebellion (1916) • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn • Emma Goldman • Eternal Feminine • Ezra Pound • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Ferrer Center • Floyd Dell • freedom of speech • free expression • Free Love • Free Speech League • Gender Role • Georgia O'Keeffe • Gertrude Stein • Gogol • Goldman • Greenwich Village • Hagar Revelly (novel) • Harlem Renaissance • Haymarket massacre • Higgins, Michael • High Culture • Homosexuality • human-interest writing • Iconoclasm • imagism • Immigrants • impressionists • Industrial Workers of the World • Intelligentsia • Irish immigrants • Isadora Duncan • Jane Addams • Jane Heap • Jews • Journalism • Kipling, Rudyard • Labor Movement • Labour movement • Lecture • Lesbian • Lincoln Steffens • Lippincott’s Monthly • Literature • Little Review • louise bryant • Lower East Side • Manifesto • Margaret Sanger • Marxism • Mary Heaton Vorse • Max Eastman • McKinley assassination • Memoir • misogyny • modernism • Modernity • Modern Library • narrative • newspaper • New Woman • No-Conscription League • novelist • optimism • Pacifism • Paterson Pageant • Patriotism • picturesque • Playwright • Poetry • Politics • popular culture • Populism • progressivism • Promiscuity • Prostitution • Provincetown Players • Publishing • radicalism and radicals • Radicalism (historical) • Randolph Bourne • Richard Sennett • Rodman, Henrietta • Romanticism • Rose Pastor Stokes • SELF realization • sensibility • Sexual Revolution • Sophistication • Suffrage • Supporter • The Little Review • The Masses • The New York Times • Theodore Dreiser • The Realist • Trade Union • Walter Lippmann • women's suffrage • Women's Trade Union League • Woodrow Wilson • Working Class • Writer • Writing • Wyndham Lewis • Yiddish
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3366-3 / 1400833663
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3366-5 / 9781400833665