The Divided Mind

Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-36868-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the early years of the twentieth century. Peter Conn discusses literature, painting, music, architecture and politics, using illustrations of the artwork, buildings and popular graphics of the period. The major figures studied include: Henry James, David Graham Phillips, Jack London, W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Charles Ives, John Sloan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfred Steiglitz and Emma Goldman.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conn, Peter

Gelpi, Albert

Posnock, Ross

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The temper of the times; 2. The triumph of reaction: Henry James; 3. Restoration as reform: David Graham Phillips; 4. It couldn't happen here: the failure of socialism in America; 5. One being black: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Bois, and others; 6. Woman's place: Edith Wharton and others; 7. Building the past and the future: Ralph Adams Cram, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others; 8. Innovation and nostalgia: Charles Ives; 9. Realism and modernism: John sloan. Alfred Steiglitz and others; 10. A glimpse into the twenty-first century: Emma Goldman.