Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
Reforming American Verse and Values |
Author: |
SzefelLisa, 1965- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
Place of Publication: |
New York |
Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
Year of Publication: |
[2011] |
Description: |
1 online resource. |
Series: |
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History |
Subject: |
American poetry - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Progressivism (United States politics) - |
Subject: |
Progressivism in literature. - |
Subject: |
Social action in literature. - |
Subject: |
Modernism (Literature) - United States. - |
Subject: |
United States - History - |
Subject: |
Literature. - |
Subject: |
HISTORY - 19th Century. - United States - |
Subject: |
HISTORY - 20th Century. - United States - |
Subject: |
HISTORY - Social History. - |
Subject: |
LITERARY COLLECTIONS - American - |
Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118973An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
Summary: |
"In The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era, Lisa Szefel investigates the place of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetry in transmitting ideas about political reform during the Progressive Era. It charts the work of poets, critics, and editors who created an institutional infrastructure of organizations, magazines, and prizes to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by unregulated industrial capitalism. Many of these figures were African Americans, women, and immigrants who forged literary networks and popularized political ideas that contributed in unrecognized ways to both the development of literary Modernism and a progressive articulation of rights"-- |
ISBN: |
9780230118973electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0230118976electronic bk. |
Content Note: |
Genteel Designs, Modern Renovations: Poetics and Poetic Communities from Hearth to Dyclmo Reforming Verse, Uplifting Society: The Labor Theory of Poetic Value Curating A Community, Engineering A Renaissance: A New Infrastructure for the "New Beauty" Rescripting Gender Codes, Redrawing the Color Line: Anthologies and The Dream of Aesthetic Universalism Paring Words, Crafting Images: The Economy of Authorship in the Literary Marketplace Romantic Individualism, Radical Politics: Lyric Solidarity in Peace and War. |