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Melting-pot modernism / Sarah Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Sarah, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americanization--History--20th century.
- Americanization.
- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
- Acculturation in literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "An intelligent and beautifully written examination of the 'melting pot' as taken up in the work of four modernist writers: Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein."--Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria.
- Contents:
- The melting pot : assimilation to one another
- Henry James in the "intellectual pot-au-feu"
- James Weldon Johnson's integrationist chameleonism
- Recollection, reform, and "broken time" in Willa Cather
- Gertrude Stein and "individual anything"
- Afterword : melting-pot histories of the present.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5941-9
- OCLC:
- 726824301
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