American literary history and the turn toward modernity / edited by Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawson, Melanie, 1967- editor.

Goldsmith, Meredith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]

Summary:

Approaching the period of 1880-1930 in American literature as one in which the processes of rethinking the past were as prevalent as wholly "new" works of art, this collection treats the century's long turn as a site that overtly staged the tension among conflicting sets of values--those of past, present, and the imagined future. As the authors of this collection demonstrate, the literature from the century's turn is irreducible to the characteristics either of the nineteenth or the twentieth centuries; rather, it is literature of dual practices and multiple values that embodies elastic qualities of historical plurality--a true literature in transition.

Contents:

Introduction / Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith

Literary pasts and presents

"It is difficult to disengage a single thread from the living web of a nation's literature": Sarah Piatt and the construction of literary history / Karin L. Hooks

Wavering in delight: time, progress, and the turn of the century in Theodore Dreiser's sister Carrie / Myrto Drizou

Writing into modernity: Edith Wharton's the writing of fiction / John Nichols

Contrasting cultures

Boarding school poetry, Carlisle Indian Industiral School, and the demands of Americanization poetics and politics at the turn of the twentieth century / Cristina Stanciu

On Jane Addams's feminist pragmatism: finding modern value in recovering the sentimental myth of the devil baby / Kristen Renzi

Gender, marriage, and sexuality

Companionate marriage across the century's turn: progress, patriarchy, and the problem of representation / Melanie V. Dawson

Laura jean libbey and sexual transformation / Dale M. Bauer

Jessie Fauset's not-so-new negro womanhood: the Harlem Renaissance, the long nineteenth century, and the legacy of feminine representation / Meredith L. Goldsmith

Yours for the (marriage) revolution: Mary Austin and Jack London / Donna M. Campbell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813056043

0813056047

OCLC:

1019834262