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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790825303321

Autore

Biers Katherine

Titolo

Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era / / Katherine Biers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8166-8758-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/112

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Literature and technology - United States - History - 20th century

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual; 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities; 2. Realizing Trilby: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene; 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice; 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York; 5. Gertrude Stein Talking; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Virtual Modernism examines the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, Katherine Biers argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies.