American Moderns Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stansell, Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Intellectual life.

Bohemianism.

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

New York (State)--New York--Greenwich Village.

New York (State)--New York.

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

New York (N.Y.).

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

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

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

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

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

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

New ed. (with a new preface)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010

Summary:

In the early twentieth century, a brand of men and women moved to New York City. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. This book tells the story of most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the 2009 Edition

Prologue

I. BOHEMIA

1 Bohemian Beginnings in the 1890s

2 Journeys to Bohemia

II. TALKING

3 Intellectuals, Conversational Politics, and Free Speech

4 Emma Goldman and the Modern Public

III. WRITING

5 Art and Life: Modernity and Literary Sensibilities

6 Writer Friends: Literary Friendships and the Romance of Partisanship

IV. THE HUMAN SEX

7 Sexual Modernism

8 Talking about Sex

V. FORMER PEOPLE

9 Loving America with Open Eyes

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-14283-1

OCLC:

1246575771