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1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Pervert modernism: American social thought 1900-1930. -- Chance, choice, and the Wings of the dove. -- Making do with Gertrude Stein. -- Hart Crane's epic of anonymity. -- Willa Cather's catechism. -- Merging with the masses. |
| Summary |
"Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and social theorists when it came to the innovative and unsettling social arrangements of the early twentieth century." "Viewing class as a restless and unstable category, Trask contends, American modernist writers appropriated sexology's concept of evasive, unmoored desire to account for the seismic shift in social relations during the Progressive era and beyond. Looking closely at the fraught ideological space between real and perceived class differences, Cruising Modernism discloses there a pervasive representation of sexuality as well."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. |
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Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. |
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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20th century |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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United States. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society. |
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History. |
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Social sciences -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Social sciences. |
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Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Social classes. |
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Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex customs. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Social classes in literature.
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Social classes in literature. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Sexual practices. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Trask, Michael, 1967- Cruising modernism. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2003 0801441706 (DLC) 2003010030 (OCoLC)52182534 |
| ISBN |
9781501717475 (electronic book) |
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1501717472 (electronic book) |
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0801441706 |
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9780801441707 |
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