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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... individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men , whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world " ( 659-660 ) . Although Crevecoeur confidently uses the interna- tionalist language of " all ...
... individual liberty . A healthy , democratic Union depended on the full expression of each state's individual character , reflected in the " laws and institutions , " which ought to be " as diversified and as dissimilar as the States ...
... individual ingredients : " we are in- jecting Italians , Hungarians , and Slavs ; but these can not possibly sub- merge the Celtic - Teutonic blood already here " ( 38 ) . In contrast to Israel Zangwill's " melting - pot , " which fused ...
... individual cultures could and indeed should retain their particularity , or what was referred to as " group - individuality . " Although " modern " variety developed fundamental tendencies from its historical antecedents , in that pre ...
... individual , Du Bois and Kallen defended the right to be different in relation to individuals . and ethno - racial subcultures . This different emphasis illustrates larger changes within liberalism , a shift from the classical focus on ...
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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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