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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... internal divisions into a source of national uniqueness.1 Such work demonstrates that the United States has not been the only nation in the Americas to turn the effects of globalization , combined with the historical consequences of ...
... internal migration , certain writers and thinkers sought to redefine or modernize a national identity , in which diversity was not cast as a barrier to modernization but as its fullest ex- pression . The celebration of American ...
... internal dissent : its positive connotations , associated with abundance and plenitude , provide a way of rhetorically diffusing the threat of do- mestic strife within a strong federal government . Variety is a residual term of popular ...
... internal regulations ; that in all their domestic concerns I am in favor of making them entirely uniform " ( Lincoln 491 ) . Lincoln challenged Douglas by replacing the language of " variety " and " uniformity " with an explicit ...
... Internal migrations were catalyzed , in part , by the economic depressions of 1893-1897 and 1907-1908 , when industrial unemployment rates soared to 30 percent.8 The period be- tween 1880 and World War I also witnessed the peak and ...
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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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