LEADER 04160nam 22007094 450 001 9910787076003321 005 20140827012637.0 010 $a0-8223-9890-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398905 035 $a(CKB)3710000000229871 035 $a(OCoLC)889158887 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10928041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001352305 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11724447 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001352305 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11309807 035 $a(PQKB)10243138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008058 035 $a(OCoLC)1141661797 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81111 035 $a889158887 035 $a(DE-B1597)553847 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398905 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161143 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000229871 100 $a20140825d1998 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUtopia & cosmopolis $eglobalization in the era of American literary realism /$fThomas Peyser 210 1$aDurham [N.C.] :$cDuke University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2247-1 311 $a1-322-11262-2 311 $a0-8223-2230-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [169]-189) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Realism and Utopia, Nation and Globe --$gPt. 1.$tDreams of Unity.$g1.$tThe World a Department Store.$g2.$tThe Imperial Ghetto --$gPt. 2.$tForms of Multiplicity.$g3.$tThe Culture of Conversation.$g4.$tThe Imperial Museum. 330 $aWhen did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In Utopia and Cosmopolis Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a reevaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a new context for understanding contemporary debates about America?s relation to the rest of the world.Applying current theoretical work on globalization to the writing of authors as diverse as Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, Peyser reveals the ways in which turn-of-the-century American writers struggled to understand the future in a newly emerging global community. Because the pressures of globalization at once fostered the formation of an American national culture and made national culture less viable as a source of identity, authors grappled to find a form of fiction that could accommodate the contradictions of their condition. Utopia and Cosmopolis unites utopian and realist narratives in subtle, startling ways through an examination of these writers? aspirations and anxieties. Whether exploring the first vision of a world brought together by the power of consumer culture, or showing how different cultures could be managed when reconceived as specimens in a museum, this book steadily extends the horizons within which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture can be understood.Ranging widely over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, Utopia and Cosmopolis is an important contribution to debates about utopian thought, globalization, and American literature. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 517 3 $aUtopia and cosmopolis 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aInternationalism in literature 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aUtopias in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aInternationalism in literature. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aUtopias in literature. 676 $a813/.409 700 $aPeyser$b Thomas$01534948 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787076003321 996 $aUtopia & cosmopolis$93782847 997 $aUNINA