Frantic panoramas
Subtitle: American literature and mass culture, 1870-1920
By: Nancy Bentley.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780812241747
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Popular culture and literature -- United States -- History; Popular culture in literature; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The analytic instinct and the art of the crash; title: Literature and the museum idea; title: Realism and the gordian knot of aesthetics and politics; title: Women and the realism of desire; title: Celebrity warriors, impossible diplomats, and the native public sphere; title: Black Bohemia and the African American novel; title: Wharton, mass travel, and the "possible crash"; title: Neurological modernity and American social thought; title: Literary analysis and the perception of incongruities.