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Aftermyths : hysteria, colloquialism, and caricature in the age of doubt
- Title
- Aftermyths : hysteria, colloquialism, and caricature in the age of doubt / Robert Eisenhauer.
- Author
- Eisenhauer, Robert G., 1946-
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xiii, 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Aftermyths investigates fault-lines in literary and visual representation from 1870 to the early twentieth century as they range from a faux essentialism, often with ethnic overtones, to a "cadence of decadence" reflecting the dissensions of modernity. Reading Henry James and Mark Twain with side-glances to the cartoon revolution of Rudolf Dirks and Richard Felton Outcault, Robert Eisenhauer delves into the archive of frontier or histrionic "decadence," "Americanness," and "Germanness.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 87
- Uniform Title
- Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 87.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Cadence of decadence : Katzenjammer, (faux) German, and American expatriates -- 2. Detecting the capital of the 20th century : scenes, evidence, theory -- 3. The exemplarity of bears : extra-species identification and mimetic aftermyth -- 4. Immortality with a sea-view : other-history in Grass and Hamill -- 5. Twisting the absolute : notes on the ontological-hysteric theatre.
- ISBN
- 0820486973 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780820486970 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006027890
- OCLC
- OCM71286600
- 71286600
- SCSB-5295408
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries