American moderns
Subtitle: bohemian New York and the creation of a new century
By: Christine Stansell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Bohemianism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Description: "In the early years of the new century, an exuberant band of talented individualists thrown together in a shabby neighborhood - a few square blocks called Greenwich Village - set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away late-Victorian sexual prudery, the cult of domesticity, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new." "In this group portrait, Stansell depicts this most colorful generation, the men and women who defined modernity for the America to come."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-403) and index.