Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781474456739 / Angielski

Deputy Head of Schoo Michael J. (Reader in American Studies

Spis treści

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 “chronica 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 the Modernists.