02607nam 2200553 450 991079082530332120230803022701.00-8166-8758-7(CKB)2550000001170361(EBL)1581499(MiAaPQ)EBC1581499(Au-PeEL)EBL1581499(CaPaEBR)ebr10819314(CaONFJC)MIL552248(OCoLC)866444853(EXLCZ)99255000000117036120140102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierVirtual modernism writing and technology in the Progressive Era /Katherine BiersMinneapolis, Minnesota :University of Minnesota Press,2013.©20131 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6755-1 1-306-20997-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; ZVirtual 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. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesLiterature and technologyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Literature and technologyHistoryPopular cultureHistory810.9/112Biers Katherine1480993MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790825303321Virtual modernism3697806UNINA