Title: Modernist fiction, cosmopolitanism and the politics of community
Description: "In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf, and Stein not only inscribe early-twentieth century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community.

This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community."--Jacket.
Subjects: American fiction, Community life in literature, Cosmopolitanism, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Modernism (Literature), Political and social views, Politics and literature, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Political fiction, history and criticism, Internationalism in literature
Places: United States
People: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Henry James (1843-1916), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Time periods: 20th century