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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory- Artful Itineraries European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920

Name: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory- Artful Itineraries
Author: Paul Fisher

Auteur: Paul Fisher

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Paul Fisher Fisher

Engels
Hardcover
9780815336549
02 december 1999
308 pagina's

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This study investigates the paradoxes of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who wrote about European art in order to promote and legitimise literary careers.

This study investigates the paradoxical dynamics of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who wrote about European art in order to promote and legitimize literary careers. Contrary to the myths they themselves disseminated, American writers in Europe did not escape American culture but rather created and participated in US. Cultural institutions like journals, museums, and universities. Transatlantic careers articulated a cult of Europe in a privileged American space, served social and aesthetic hierarchies, and constructed formidable versions of professional authority of American writers.

The book focuses on four art careers Americans practiced in Europe: travel writing, art reviewing, connoisseurship, and salon hosting. It illuminates the careers of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bernard and Mary Berenson, Celia Thaxter, and Gertrude Stein as itineraries of high-cultural formation and self-definition. In four chapters, the study examines these paradigmatic careers as both literary and cultural history, relating them to a diverse American society as well as Bostonian high culture.

Americans created and deployed expatriate art careers, the author argues, in a landscape of gender, ethnic, and class relations. The use of Europe was both figural and practical: writers created a fantasized Europe that both enacted social repression and enabled social liberation. Ultimately, as the example of James Weld Johnson demonstrates, elitist and Europhile high culture reflected a much larger America as well as the narrower cultural institutions that historically fostered it.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 december 1999
Aantal pagina's: 308
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Hoofdauteur: Paul Fisher
Tweede Auteur: Fisher
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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Product breedte: 138 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 138 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 216 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 430 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Kunst & Fotografie

Kunstonderwerpen

Cultuur

Kunstgeschiedenis

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Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Periode: ca. 1800-1910
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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