Exoteric Modernisms : Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474456723
ISBN-13
9781474456722
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 2023
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryLiterary studies: generalHistory of the AmericasSocial classes
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Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism politically and culturally
This book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere''s work on aesthetics and politics to develop a mode of reading class and culture that challenges conventional interpretations that pit the two modes of representation in opposition. It paints a picture of the late-nineteenth century, prior to modernism, as an aesthetically exciting, original, and politically radical stage in American life to reinvigorate realism as a radical aesthetic practice, with implications for understandings of American literature both in the past and into the future.
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