American moderns : bohemian New York and the creation of a new century Christine Stansell

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stansell, Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Bohemianism--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Bohemianism.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.).

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.

Summary:

"In the early years of the new century, an exuberant band of talented individualists thrown together in a shabby neighborhood - a few square blocks called Greenwich Village - set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away late-Victorian sexual prudery, the cult of domesticity, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new." "In this group portrait, Stansell depicts this most colorful generation, the men and women who defined modernity for the America to come."--Jacket.

Contents:

Bohemian beginnings in the 1890s

Journeys to Bohemia

Intellectuals, conversational politics, and free speech

Emma Goldman and the modern public

Art and life: modernity and literary sensibilities

Writer friends: literary friendships and the romance of partisanship

Sexual modernism

Talking about sex

Loving America with open eyes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-403) and index.

ISBN:

0805048472

9780805048476

OCLC:

42597682

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