04160nam 22007094 450 991078707600332120140827012637.00-8223-9890-710.1515/9780822398905(CKB)3710000000229871(OCoLC)889158887(CaPaEBR)ebrary10928041(SSID)ssj0001352305(PQKBManifestationID)11724447(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001352305(PQKBWorkID)11309807(PQKB)10243138(MiAaPQ)EBC3008058(OCoLC)1141661797(MdBmJHUP)muse81111889158887(DE-B1597)553847(DE-B1597)9780822398905(OCoLC)1229161143(EXLCZ)99371000000022987120140825d1998 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrUtopia & cosmopolis globalization in the era of American literary realism /Thomas PeyserDurham [N.C.] :Duke University Press,1998.1 online resource (209 p.) New AmericanistsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8223-2247-1 1-322-11262-2 0-8223-2230-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-189) and index.Introduction: Realism and Utopia, Nation and Globe --Pt. 1.Dreams of Unity.1.The World a Department Store.2.The Imperial Ghetto --Pt. 2.Forms of Multiplicity.3.The Culture of Conversation.4.The Imperial Museum.When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In Utopia and Cosmopolis Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a reevaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a new context for understanding contemporary debates about America’s relation to the rest of the world.Applying current theoretical work on globalization to the writing of authors as diverse as Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, Peyser reveals the ways in which turn-of-the-century American writers struggled to understand the future in a newly emerging global community. Because the pressures of globalization at once fostered the formation of an American national culture and made national culture less viable as a source of identity, authors grappled to find a form of fiction that could accommodate the contradictions of their condition. Utopia and Cosmopolis unites utopian and realist narratives in subtle, startling ways through an examination of these writers’ aspirations and anxieties. Whether exploring the first vision of a world brought together by the power of consumer culture, or showing how different cultures could be managed when reconceived as specimens in a museum, this book steadily extends the horizons within which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture can be understood.Ranging widely over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, Utopia and Cosmopolis is an important contribution to debates about utopian thought, globalization, and American literature.New Americanists.Utopia and cosmopolisAmerican fictionHistory and criticismRealism in literatureInternationalism in literatureNationalism in literatureUtopias in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Realism in literature.Internationalism in literature.Nationalism in literature.Utopias in literature.813/.409Peyser Thomas1534948NDDNDDBOOK9910787076003321Utopia & cosmopolis3782847UNINA