The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era
Subtitle: Reforming American Verse and Values
By: Lisa Szefel
Edition: First edition.
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History; Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230112841
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Progressivism in literature; Progressivism (United States politics); American poetry; Social action in literature; History and criticism; History
Description: "In The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era, Lisa Szefel investigates the place of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetry in transmitting ideas about political reform during the Progressive Era. It charts the work of poets, critics, and editors who created an institutional infrastructure of organizations, magazines, and prizes to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by unregulated industrial capitalism. Many of these figures were African Americans, women, and immigrants who forged literary networks and popularized political ideas that contributed in unrecognized ways to both the development of literary Modernism and a progressive articulation of rights"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index.