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

Michael J. Collins

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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Exoteric Modernisms

Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Dedication
pp ix-x

Introduction: Modern Times; Or, Re-Reading the Progressive Era
pp 1-52

Chapter 1 - Culture and Anarchy: Time, Narrative and the Haymarket Affair
pp 53-103

Chapter 2 - ‘Pure Feelings, Noble Aspirations and Generous Ideas’: Yellow Journalism, the Cuban War of Independence and crónica modernista
pp 104-141

Chapter 3 - Manacled to Identity: Fugitive Aesthetics in Stephen Crane’s Pluralistic Universe
pp 142-182

Chapter 4 - Getting Some of the Way with Undine Spragg: Cosmopolitanism, Ethnography and War Work in the Novels of Edith Wharton
pp 183-233

Coda: James Huneker, A Decadent Among Modernists
pp 234-239

Bibliography
pp 240-247

Index
pp 248-258

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