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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: Publication Date: 5/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780472038909, 978-0472038909
        ISBN10: 0472038907

        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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