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The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era : Reforming American Verse and Values
- Title
- The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era : Reforming American Verse and Values / Lisa Szefel.
- Author
- Szefel, Lisa, 1965-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 280 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
- Subjects
- United States > History > 1865-1921
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- HISTORY / Social History
- Progressivism in literature
- Social action in literature
- Modernism (Literature) > United States
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Genteel Designs, Modern Renovations: Poetics and the Poetic Community from Hearth to Dynamo -- 2.Reforming Verse, Uplifting Society: The Labor Theory of Poetic Value -- 3.Curating a Community, Engineering a Renaissance: A New Infrastructure for the "New Beauty" -- 4.Rescripting Gender Codes, Redrawing the Color Line: Anthologies and the Dream of Aesthetic Universalism -- 5.Paring Words, Crafting Images: The Economy of Authorship in the Literary Marketplace -- 6.Romantic Individualism, Radical Politics: Lyric Solidarity in Peace and War.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-687
- ISBN
- 9780230112841 (hardback)
- 0230112846 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010045448
- OCLC
- YBP 2010045448
- Author
- Szefel, Lisa, 1965- , author.
- Title
- The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era : Reforming American Verse and Values / Lisa Szefel.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryPalgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-687