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Informationen zum Autor Nancy Bentley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, and Wharton and coeditor (with Sandra Gunning) of The Marrow of Tradition. Klappentext Through close readings of writers such as Edith Wharton! Henry James! William Dean Howells! James Weldon Johnson! Pauline Hopkins! and Gertrude Bonnin! "Frantic Panoramas" offers an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Through close readings of writers such as Edith Wharton! Henry James! William Dean Howells! James Weldon Johnson! Pauline Hopkins! and Gertrude Bonnin! Frantic Panoramas offers an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Analytic Instinct and the Art of the Crash Chapter 1. Literature and the Museum Idea Chapter 2. Realism and the Gordian Knot of Aesthetics and Politics Chapter 3. Women and the Realism of Desire Chapter 4. Celebrity Warriors, Impossible Diplomats, and the Native Public Sphere Chapter 5. Black Bohemia and the African American Novel Chapter 6. Wharton, Mass Travel, and the "Possible Crash" Chapter 7. Neurological Modernity and American Social Thought Conclusion: Literary Analysis and the Perception of Incongruities Notes Index Acknowledgments
