Exoteric Modernisms : Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
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Format
Paperback / Softback
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
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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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