Exoteric Modernisms : Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life (Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century)

Collins, Michael J.

Edinburgh University Press（2023/09発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2023/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474456722
• DDC分類 810.912

Full Description

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

Offers an original interpretation of the contribution of American anthropology and social science to the development of literature and culture in the 20th century
New readings of canonical and non-canonical texts of the period 1880 1930, placing Edith Wharton, WD Howells, Stephen Crane Jose Mart and others alongside works by other working-class reformers, journalists, political radicals and anthropologists working in the Progressive Era U.S.A.
New approach to realism that explores it as a form of modernism in the arts
Develops a theory of the intersections of class and culture in U.S. literature that contributes to ongoing discussions in the method wars

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.

Contents

List of Figures

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



Bibliography

Index