TY - GEN T1 - Exoteric modernisms : Progressive Era realism and the aesthetics of everyday life T2 - Modern American literature and the new twentieth century. A1 - Collins, Michael J. (Michael James), 1984- LA - English PP - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1402581097 AB - Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism politically and culturally. This book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere's work on aesthetics and politics to develop a mode of reading class and culture that challenges conventional interpretations that pit the two modes of representation in opposition. It paints a picture of the late-nineteenth century, prior to modernism, as an aesthetically exciting, original, and politically radical stage in American life to reinvigorate realism as a radical aesthetic practice, with implications for understandings of American literature both in the past and into the future.-- OP - 258 CN - PS228.R38 C65 2023 SN - 9781474456753 SN - 1474456758 SN - 9781474456746 SN - 147445674X SN - 9781474456722 SN - 1474456723 KW - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Realism in literature. KW - Civilization, Modern, in literature. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Littérature américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Réalisme dans la littérature. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - American literature KW - Civilization, Modern, in literature KW - Realism in literature KW - Literature: history & criticism. KW - Literary theory. KW - Literary studies: general. KW - History of the Americas. KW - Social classes. KW - Literature. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -