The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National DistinctivenessHarvard University Press, 2000 - 380 من الصفحات The turn of the last century, amid the excesses of the Gilded Age, variety became a key notion for Americans—a sign of national progress and development, reassurance that the modern nation would not fall into monotonous dullness or disorderly chaos. Carrie Tirado Bramen pursues this idea through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres ranging from intra-urban walking tours in popular magazines to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, she shows how the rhetoric of variety became naturalized and nationalized as quintessentially American and inherently democratic. By focusing on the uses of the term in the work of William James, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hamlin Garland, and Wong Chin Foo, among many others, Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism. |
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... James , Pragmatism : A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking William James , A Pluralistic Universe : Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy WPR John Henry Barrows , ed . , The World's Parliament ...
... James's duality of " connection " and " auton- omy " in making comparisons and contrasts between the two periods . The earlier period is neither identical nor " other " to our contemporary times . Instead , to quote James , it is in ...
... James Madison's The Federalist No. 10 , a paper that aimed to persuade reluctant New Yorkers to adopt the proposed new Constitution , which would sac- rifice a degree of local and state power in order to strengthen the na- tional ...
... James , it threatened the equilibrium of the mind . In The Va- rieties of Religious Experience , he warns that a " heterogeneous personal- ity " is on the verge of insanity : " a stronger degree of heterogeneity may make havoc of the ...
... James because he be- lieved that the one and the many could be resolved , at least in a limited and temporary manner — a project that his contemporaries such as Henry Adams considered futile . James had a far less cynical and deter ...
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William James and the Modern Federal Republic | 29 |
Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism | 67 |
The Uneven Development of American Regionalism | 115 |
The Urban Picturesque and Americanization | 156 |
Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory | 201 |
East Meets West at the Worlds Parliament of Religions | 250 |
In Defense of Partiality | 293 |
Notes | 307 |
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Acknowledgments | 361 |
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