The Genius of Democracy : Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945.
Title:
The Genius of Democracy : Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945.
Author:
Olwell, Victoria.
ISBN:
9780812204971
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Work of Genius -- Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself ": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work -- Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians -- Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius -- Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation -- Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion -- Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Victoria Olwell shows how American fiction helped to catalyze democratic models of female genius, especially in the work of such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein.
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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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