Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era / Katherine Biers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biers, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature and technology--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and technology.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Summary:

Virtual Modernism examines the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, Katherine Biers argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual; 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities; 2. Realizing Trilby: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene; 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice; 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York; 5. Gertrude Stein Talking; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8166-8758-7

OCLC:

866444853