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Frantic Panoramas : American Literature and Mass Culture, 187-192.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201246
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frantic PanoramasDDC classification:
  • 810.9355
LOC classification:
  • PS228.P67 -- B46 2009eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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