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How a group of modernist writers used their training as empiricists to create a data-driven aesthetic

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
    “More nearly a transcript of life”: Collecting Lives and Narrating Selves in Early 20th Century U.S. Literatures
  • Chapter One
    “Such a body of information”: W. E. B. Du Bois, Data, and the Re-assemblage of Race and Self
  • Chapter Two
    The Educations of Henry Adams and the Anxieties of Assemblage Selfhood
  • Chapter Three
    To Tell a Story Wholly: Gertrude Stein, “Melanctha,” and Self as Data Collection
  • Chapter Four
    To Reproduce a Record: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Labor of Data Collection
  • Coda
    Data-Driven Modernism Against Algorithmic Identity
  • Works Cited

    Collecting Lives

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 5/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472038909, 978-0472038909
      ISBN10: 0472038907
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      Literary companions, book reviews and guides Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How a group of modernist writers used their training as empiricists to create a data-driven aesthetic

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
        “More nearly a transcript of life”: Collecting Lives and Narrating Selves in Early 20th Century U.S. Literatures
      • Chapter One
        “Such a body of information”: W. E. B. Du Bois, Data, and the Re-assemblage of Race and Self
      • Chapter Two
        The Educations of Henry Adams and the Anxieties of Assemblage Selfhood
      • Chapter Three
        To Tell a Story Wholly: Gertrude Stein, “Melanctha,” and Self as Data Collection
      • Chapter Four
        To Reproduce a Record: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Labor of Data Collection
      • Coda
        Data-Driven Modernism Against Algorithmic Identity
      • Works Cited

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