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Author Cadle, Nathaniel, author.

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

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

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 Moore Stacks  PS228.R38 C33 2014    Available  ---
Description x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Progressivism in literature.
Progressivism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Literature and transnationalism.
Literature and transnationalism.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 1469618451 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
146961846X (ebook)
9781469618456 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781469618463 (ebook)
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