Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

1. 1900 - 1999
2. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
3. Realism in literature
4. Progressivism in literature
5. Multiculturalism in literature
6. Literature and transnationalism
7. Modernism (Literature) > United States
8. American literature
9. Modernism (Literature)
10. Literatur
11. Politische Literatur
12. Amerikanisches Englisch
13. Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
14. Globalisierung
15. United States

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 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

1. JFE 14-7862

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.

Author

1. Cadle, Nathaniel, author.

Title

1. The mediating nation : late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state / Nathaniel Cadle.

Publisher

1. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900 - 1999

LCCN

1. 2014008429

Other standard identifier

1. 40024099116

ISBN

1. 9781469618456 (pbk : alk. paper)
2. 1469618451 (pbk : alk. paper)
3. 9781469618463 (ebook)
4. 146961846X (ebook)

Research call number

1. JFE 14-7862