Exoteric Modernisms : Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
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| Title: | Exoteric Modernisms : Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life |
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| Description: | This book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere's work on aesthetics and politics to develop a mode of reading class and culture that challenges conventional interpretations that pit the two modes of representation in opposition. It paints a picture of the late-nineteenth century, prior to modernism, as an aesthetically exciting, original, and politically radical stage in American life to reinvigorate realism as a radical aesthetic practice, with implications for understandings of American literature both in the past and into the future. |
| Authors: | Michael J. Collins |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Civilization, Modern, in literature, Realism in literature, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature) |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere's work on aesthetics and politics to develop a mode of reading class and culture that challenges conventional interpretations that pit the two modes of representation in opposition. It paints a picture of the late-nineteenth century, prior to modernism, as an aesthetically exciting, original, and politically radical stage in American life to reinvigorate realism as a radical aesthetic practice, with implications for understandings of American literature both in the past and into the future. |
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| ISBN: | 9781474456722 9781474456746 9781474456753 |
