The Mediating Nation : Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State /

Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cadle, Nathaniel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Realism in literature.
Progressivism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and transnationalism.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Litterature et transnationalisme.
Multiculturalisme dans la litterature.
Progressisme dans la litterature.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Transnational circulation in the age of realism and progressivism
  • From cosmopolitanism to world-salvation: the transnational imaginary and the idea of the progressive state
  • Local color, world literature, and the transnational turn in William Dean Howells's fiction and criticism
  • Improper wealth getting: Henry James, the rise of finance capitalism, and the emerging global cultural economy
  • Migration systems and literary production: the global routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun
  • Freedom amongst aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the alternative modernity of Japan
  • Coda: Modernism, multiculturalism, and the legacy of the mediating nation.

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