Exoteric Modernisms
Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2023
272 pages
978-1-4744-5674-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Modern Times
- Or, Re-Reading the Progressive Era
- 1. Culture and Anarchy: Time, Narrative and the Haymarket Affair
- 2. 'Pure Feelings, Noble Aspirations and Generous Ideas': Yellow Journalism, the Cuban War of Independence and crónica modernista
- 3. Manacled to Identity: Fugitive Aesthetics in Stephen Crane's Pluralistic Universe
- 4. 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 Modernists
- Bibliography
- Index
