Modernist fiction, cosmopolitanism and the politics of community / Jessica Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Jessica Schiff, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Political and social views.

James, Henry.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Political and social views.

Proust, Marcel.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Political and social views.

Woolf, Virginia.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Political and social views.

Stein, Gertrude.

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

American fiction.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Politics and literature--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Literature and society--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Community life in literature.

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism & the Politics of Community

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community.

Contents:

1. Cosmopolitan Communities

2. Henry James. "The History of the Voice": Cosmpolitan's America. Feminizing the nation: woman as cultural icon in late James

3. Marcel Proust. Proust, Bernard Lazare, and the politics of pariahdom. The community, the prophet, and the pariah: relation in A la recherche du temps perdu

4. Virginia Woolf. "Splinter" and "mosaic": towards the politics of connection. Of oceans and opposition: the action of The Waves

5. Gertrude Stein. Steinian topographies: the making of America. Writing the "I" that is "they": Gertrude Stein's community of the subject

6. Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-234) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12387-9

1-280-16085-3

1-139-14732-3

0-511-11968-2

0-511-06374-1

0-511-05741-5

0-511-30347-5

0-511-48500-X

0-511-07220-1

OCLC:

57183169