Ephemeral Bibelots How an International Fad Buried American Modernism / Brad Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Brad, 1968- author.

Series:

Hopkins studies in modernism.

Hopkins studies in modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

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

Literature and society.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Little magazines--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Little magazines.

Little magazines--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Little magazines--United States--History--20th century.

Little magazines--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, Ephemeral Bibelots provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.

Contents:

Prologue. The black cat goes walking

Introduction. Ephemeral bibelots

Gelett Burgess and the flight from reality

What travels? what doesn't? the international movement of movements

Relating in Henry James

Butterflies, faddishness, and the iconography of desire

The edginess of Stephen Crane at the end of the relational era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-3156-4

OCLC:

1110009971