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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... Religions in Chicago , she shows how the rhetoric of vari- ety 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 ...
... Mendelist Allegory 201 6 East Meets West at the World's Parliament of Religions 250 Afterword : In Defense of Partiality 293 Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Index 307 337 361 365 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. " The Rag Picker , " by.
... Religions . 253 In The World's Parliament of Religions , ed . John Henry Barrows ( Chicago , 1893 ) , I : ii . Figure 5. Eastern delegates on the platform at the World's Parliament of Religions , 15 September 1893 . 270 By permission of ...
... Universe : Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy WPR John Henry Barrows , ed . , The World's Parliament of Religions , 2 vols . Philosophy has often been defined as the quest or the Abbreviations.
... religion , and science . My interdisciplin- ary approach is comparative without being relativist , which is to say that I have integrated William James's duality of " connection " and " auton- omy " in making comparisons and contrasts ...
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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 |
337 | |
Acknowledgments | 361 |
365 | |