Exoteric Modernisms

Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Michael J. Collins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474456722 (ISBN)

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Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism politically and culturally

This book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere’s work on aesthetics and politics to develop a mode of reading class and culture that challenges conventional interpretations that pit the two modes of representation in opposition. It paints a picture of the late-nineteenth century, prior to modernism, as an aesthetically exciting, original, and politically radical stage in American life to reinvigorate realism as a radical aesthetic practice, with implications for understandings of American literature both in the past and into the future.

Michael J. Collins (he/him) is Reader in American Studies at King's College London where he is Deputy Head of School, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Recent essays on Mark Twain, Claude McKay and W.E.B DuBois have appeared in Textual Practice, English Language Notes and The Palgrave Handbook to Twentieth Century Literature and Science (ed. Priscilla Wald), respectively. He is the author of The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800- 1865 (2016) and is co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story with Prof Gavin Jones. He has been the recipient of Arts and Humanities Research Council awards at Masters, Doctoral and Postdoctoral level and a Leverhulme Early Career award.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Modern Times; Or, Re-Reading the Progressive Era

Culture and Anarchy: Time, Narrative, and the Haymarket Affair

'Pure Feelings, Noble Aspirations and Generous Ideas': Yellow Journalism, the Cuban War of Independence, and crónica modernista

Manacled to Identity: Fugitive Aesthetics in Stephen Crane’s Pluralistic Universe

Getting Some of the Way with Undine Spragg: Cosmopolitanism, Ethnography and War Work in the Novels of Edith Wharton

　

Coda: James Huneker, A Decadent Among the Modernists

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century
Zusatzinfo	7 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781474456722 / 9781474456722
Zustand	Neuware