Exoteric Modernisms : Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Name: Exoteric Modernisms
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781474456739
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9781474456739

by Michael J. Collins

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century

ISBN-10 1474456731

ISBN-13 9781474456739

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 1st, 2025

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 354 grams

Dimensions 13.80 x 21.70 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory Literary studies: general History of the Americas Social classes Social classes History of the Americas

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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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