{"product_id":"virtual-modernism-9780816667550","title":"Virtual Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVirtual Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e examines provocative links among literature, journalism, and social theory during the Progressive Era in the United States. Katherine Biers persuasively makes the case that the period’s emphasis on the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media is particularly resonant with theorists today. Moreover, contemporary interest in ‘the virtual,’ she suggests, can trace its roots to this period in U.S. cultural history. A stimulating and important book.\" —Jane Thrailkill, author of \u003ci\u003eAffecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At the crossroads of media studies and American studies, but also of philosophy and cultural history, this book offers a highly innovative and dramatically inspiring close-reading of the way in which five major America modernists developed new ways of writing in response to mass culture and the new (media) technologies that reshaped American culture in the pre World-War I years.\"—\u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Engaging and original, with useful notes, this well-researched study provides insight into the development of modernism and its connection to the turn-of-the-century conception of the virtual.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Katherine Biers’s \u003ci\u003eVirtual Modernism \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a welcome collection of well-thought-out, critical, and deeply insightful readings of Modernist texts that elucidate the power of the virtual as a concept.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The greatest triumph of \u003ci\u003eVirtual Modernism \u003c\/i\u003eis that Biers successfully demonstrates how each of her subjects strives to articulate the quest for virtual experience, or what Martin Jay terms 'experience without a subject.'\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Year’s Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Biers’s bracing interpretations bring cultural critique into exhilarating conjunction with the lessons of media studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Situating a literary text in the midst of a changing media landscape makes it possible for Biers to recover a forgotten set of concerns. . . that once filled these texts with a sense of relevance, novelty, and potentiality.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At the crossroads of media studies and American studies, and also of philosophy and cultural history, \u003ci\u003eVirtual Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e offers a highly innovative and dramatically inspiring close reading. . . Biers has written a landmark study that gives an inspirational twist to modernism studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A study of considerable brilliance that will set the terms of debate on modernism’s relation to media, pragmatism, and progressivism for many years to come.\"—\u003ci\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Skillfully sketching out a genealogy of the early encounters of modernist writing with mass media and communications technologies, Katherine Biers’s \u003ci\u003eVirtual Modernism \u003c\/i\u003eis a valuable contribution to both American literary criticism and media studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Promise of the Virtual\u003cb\u003e1. Stephen Crane’s Abilities\u003cb\u003e2. Realizing \u003cem\u003eTrilby\u003c\/em\u003e: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene\u003cb\u003e3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice\u003cb\u003e4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes’s New York\u003cb\u003e5. Gertrude Stein Talking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405964124503,"sku":"9780816667550","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816667550.jpg?v=1730494065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/virtual-modernism-9780816667550","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}