The Little Art Colony and US Modernism : Carmel, Provincetown, Taos (Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century)

Gano, Geneva M.

Edinburgh University Press（2022/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474439763
• DDC分類 709.73

Full Description

This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production. Alongside a historical overview of the emergence of three critical sites of modernist activity the little art colonies of Carmel, Provincetown and Taos the book offers new critical readings of major authors associated with those places: Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O'Neill and D. H. Lawrence. Geneva M. Gano tracks the radical thought and aesthetic innovation that emerged from these villages, revealing a surprisingly dynamic circulation of persons, objects and ideas between the country and the city and producing modernisms that were cosmopolitan in character yet also site-specific.

Contents

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Modernism beyond the Metropolis

Part I: Carmel1. Race, Place, and Cultural Production in Carmel-by-the-Sea2. Robinson Jeffers, the Art Worker, and the 'Carmel Idea'

Part II: Provincetown 3. Building the Beloved Community in Provincetown4. Eugene O'Neill: Superpersonalization and Racial Spectacularism

Part III: Taos5. Cultivating the Taos Mystique6. 'Something Stood Up in my Soul': D. H. Lawrence in Taos

Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Little Arts Colony: Institutionalizing Creative CollectivitiesIndex