Frantic panoramas : American literature and mass culture, 1870-1920

Frantic panoramas : American literature and mass culture, 1870-1920 / Nancy Bentley.

Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture-from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the advent of mass culture as undermining literature's central role in the public sphere. Literary wr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bentley, Nancy, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
1800-1999
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Popular culture and literature > United States > History.
Popular culture in literature.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Popular culture in literature
Popular culture
Popular culture and literature
Popular literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The analytic instinct and the art of the crash
  • Literature and the museum idea
  • Realism and the gordian knot of aesthetics and politics
  • Women and the realism of desire
  • Celebrity warriors, impossible diplomats, and the native public sphere
  • Black Bohemia and the African American novel
  • Wharton, mass travel, and the "possible crash"
  • Neurological modernity and American social thought
  • Conclusion: Literary analysis and the perception of incongruities.

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