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The mediating nation : late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state

Title
The mediating nation : late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state / Nathaniel Cadle.
Author
Cadle, Nathaniel
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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Description
x, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900 - 1999
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Realism in literature
  • Progressivism in literature
  • Multiculturalism in literature
  • Literature and transnationalism
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
  • American literature
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Literatur
  • Politische Literatur
  • Amerikanisches Englisch
  • Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
  • Globalisierung
  • United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Transnational circulation in the age of realism and progressivism -- From cosmopolitanism to world-salvation: the transnational imaginary and the idea of the progressive state -- Local color, world literature, and the transnational turn in William Dean Howells's fiction and criticism -- Improper wealth getting: Henry James, the rise of finance capitalism, and the emerging global cultural economy -- Migration systems and literary production: the global routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun -- Freedom amongst aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the alternative modernity of Japan -- Coda: Modernism, multiculturalism, and the legacy of the mediating nation.
Call Number
JFE 14-7862
ISBN
  • 9781469618456 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 1469618451 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 9781469618463 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 146961846X (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2014008429
  • 40024099116
OCLC
876000083
Author
Cadle, Nathaniel, author.
Title
The mediating nation : late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state / Nathaniel Cadle.
Publisher
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Chronological Term
1900 - 1999
Other Standard Identifier
40024099116
Research Call Number
JFE 14-7862
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