Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life 9781474456746
Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism
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English Pages 264 [272] Year 2023
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Modern Times; Or, Re-Reading the Progressive Era
1. Culture and Anarchy: Time, Narrative and the Haymarket Affair
2. ‘Pure Feelings, Noble Aspirations and Generous Ideas’: Yellow Journalism, the Cuban War of Independence and crónica modernista
3. Manacled to Identity: Fugitive Aesthetics in Stephen Crane’s Pluralistic Universe
4. 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 Modernists
Bibliography
Index
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Modern Times; Or, Re-Reading the Progressive Era
1. Culture and Anarchy: Time, Narrative and the Haymarket Affair
2. ‘Pure Feelings, Noble Aspirations and Generous Ideas’: Yellow Journalism, the Cuban War of Independence and crónica modernista
3. Manacled to Identity: Fugitive Aesthetics in Stephen Crane’s Pluralistic Universe
4. 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 Modernists
Bibliography
Index
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- Michael J. Collins
