The Divided Mind
Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917
Published on 24. February 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-0-521-36868-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the early years of the twentieth century. Peter Conn discusses literature, painting, music, architecture and politics, using illustrations of the artwork, buildings and popular graphics of the period. The major figures studied include: Henry James, David Graham Phillips, Jack London, W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Charles Ives, John Sloan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfred Steiglitz and Emma Goldman.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-36868-1 (9780521368681)
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11/1983
Cambridge University Press
€37.14
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Content
1. The temper of the times; 2. The triumph of reaction: Henry James; 3. Restoration as reform: David Graham Phillips; 4. It couldn't happen here: the failure of socialism in America; 5. One being black: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Bois, and others; 6. Woman's place: Edith Wharton and others; 7. Building the past and the future: Ralph Adams Cram, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others; 8. Innovation and nostalgia: Charles Ives; 9. Realism and modernism: John sloan. Alfred Steiglitz and others; 10. A glimpse into the twenty-first century: Emma Goldman.