The mediating nation : late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cadle, Nathaniel (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Realism in literature. Progressivism in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. Literature and transnationalism. Modernism (Literature) > United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. 1900 - 1999 American literature. Modernism (Literature) United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Transnational circulation in the age of realism and progressivism
From cosmopolitanism to world-salvation: the transnational imaginary and the idea of the progressive state
Local color, world literature, and the transnational turn in William Dean Howells's fiction and criticism
Improper wealth getting: Henry James, the rise of finance capitalism, and the emerging global cultural economy
Migration systems and literary production: the global routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun
Freedom amongst aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the alternative modernity of Japan
Coda: Modernism, multiculturalism, and the legacy of the mediating nation.