Frantic Panoramas : American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920.
Title:
Frantic Panoramas : American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920.
Author:
Bentley, Nancy.
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9780812201246
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (371 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Analytic Instinct and the Art of the Crash -- Chapter 1. Literature and the Museum Idea -- Chapter 2. Realism and the Gordian Knot of Aesthetics and Politics -- Chapter 3. Women and the Realism of Desire -- Chapter 4. Celebrity Warriors, Impossible Diplomats, and the Native Public Sphere -- Chapter 5. Black Bohemia and the African American Novel -- Chapter 6. Wharton, Mass Travel, and the ''Possible Crash'' -- Chapter 7. Neurological Modernity and American Social Thought -- Conclusion: Literary Analysis and the Perception of Incongruities -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Through close readings of writers such as Edith Wharton, Henry James, William Dean Howells, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin, Frantic Panoramas offers an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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