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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... manifested above all things its interest in unity . But how about the variety in things ? Is that such an irrele- vant matter ? William James , Pragmatism ( 1907 ) Introduction Americanizing Variety The United States , by its very.
... interest in the years between 1880 and World War I on their own terms , independent of the contemporary plea for relevance . The result was an eclectic method that fuses theoretical interests with historical scholarship , a combination ...
... interests of the land - owning class , which was geographically scattered throughout the former thirteen col- onies ... interest , adverse to the rights of other citizens , or to the per- manent and aggregate interests of the community ...
... interests ; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of ... interest , " he uses the language of " faction " in relation to " mischiefs , " " mortal diseases , " and " violence ...
... interests , as in Madison's federalist plan and the antebellum defense of states ' rights . It was now used to articulate a far greater spec- trum of positions , ranging from prominent intellectuals such as Gid- dings to lesser - known ...
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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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