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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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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

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/06/2009
      ISBN13: 9780812241747, 978-0812241747
      ISBN10: 0812241746
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Original, stimulating, and richly informative." * Choice *

      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

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