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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... Parliament 283 of Religions , September 1893 . In The World's Parliament of Religions , ed . John Henry Barrows ( Chicago , 1893 ) , II : 861 . ABBREVIATIONS C & D Horace Kallen , Culture and Democracy List of Illustrations.
... Democracy in the United States ᎠᏴ Р PU The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader , ed . Eric J. Sundquist William James , Pragmatism : A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking William James , A Pluralistic Universe : Hibbert Lectures at ...
... democracy . Only in the United States , and more specifically within its cosmopolitan centers , can one experience fully the true diver- sity of the age . The juxtaposition of styles has a leveling effect , which produces a certain ...
... democracy , republicanism , with its central form of government , can withstand the threat of faction because republics do not seek to re- move the " causes of faction " but only to seek " relief " in " controlling its effects " ( 761 ) ...
... democracy , linked to organic tropes of difference and in- dividuality , which Madison transplants to the Constitution as a way of naturalizing a political artifice . The significance of Madison for my purposes in this book is that he ...
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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 |
365 | |