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Author Trask, Michael, 1967-

Title Cruising modernism : class and sexuality in American literature and social thought / Michael Trask.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2003.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)
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.
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Subject James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. (OCoLC)fst00050013
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. (OCoLC)fst00054768
James, Henry, 1843-1916. (OCoLC)fst00028686
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. (OCoLC)fst00030233
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social sciences -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions.
Social classes in literature.
Sex in literature.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
Sex customs. (OCoLC)fst01114306
Sex in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114464
Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
Social classes in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122375
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social sciences. (OCoLC)fst01122877
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Erotik Motiv.
Literatur.
Soziale Klasse Motiv.
United States.
Geschichte 1900-1930.
United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Trask, Michael, 1967- Cruising modernism. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2003 0801441706 (DLC) 2003010030 (OCoLC)52182534
ISBN 9781501717475 (electronic bk.)
1501717472 (electronic bk.)
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