American literary history and the turn toward modernity /
Approaching the period of 1880-1930 in American literature as one in which the processes of rethinking the past were as prevalent as wholly "new" works of art, this collection treats the century's long turn as a site that overtly staged the tension among conflicting sets of values--th...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith
- Literary pasts and presents
- "It is difficult to disengage a single thread from the living web of a nation's literature": Sarah Piatt and the construction of literary history / Karin L. Hooks
- Wavering in delight: time, progress, and the turn of the century in Theodore Dreiser's sister Carrie / Myrto Drizou
- Writing into modernity: Edith Wharton's the writing of fiction / John Nichols
- Contrasting cultures
- Boarding school poetry, Carlisle Indian Industiral School, and the demands of Americanization poetics and politics at the turn of the twentieth century / Cristina Stanciu
- On Jane Addams's feminist pragmatism: finding modern value in recovering the sentimental myth of the devil baby / Kristen Renzi
- Gender, marriage, and sexuality
- Companionate marriage across the century's turn: progress, patriarchy, and the problem of representation / Melanie V. Dawson
- Laura jean libbey and sexual transformation / Dale M. Bauer
- Jessie Fauset's not-so-new negro womanhood: the Harlem Renaissance, the long nineteenth century, and the legacy of feminine representation / Meredith L. Goldsmith
- Yours for the (marriage) revolution: Mary Austin and Jack London / Donna M. Campbell.