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Frantic panoramas : American literature and mass culture, 1870-1920 / Nancy Bentley.
LIBRA PS228.P67 B46 2009
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Van Pelt Library PS228.P67 B46 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentley, Nancy, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Popular culture and literature.
- History.
- United States.
- Popular culture and literature--United States--History.
- Popular culture in literature.
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and magical beliefs of Native Americans and African Americans have been represented in a range of discourses including anthropology, comparative religion, and literature.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The analytic instinct and the art of the crash
- Literature and the museum idea
- Realism and the gordian knot of aesthetics and politics
- Women and the realism of desire
- Celebrity warriors, impossible diplomats, and the native public sphere
- Black Bohemia and the African American novel
- Wharton, mass travel, and the "possible crash"
- Neurological modernity and American social thought
- Conclusion: Literary analysis and the perception of incongruities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-348) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812241747
- 0812241746
- OCLC:
- 290494430
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