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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Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness Carrie Tirado Bramen. The Uses of Variety Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness Carrie Tirado Bramen HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge , Massachusetts , ...
... variety did not suddenly begin in the late nineteenth century . Variety was an inherited term as much as it was a " modern " one . To demonstrate this point , I turn briefly to this earlier pe- riod to chart a genealogy of American ...
... variety within a limited Eurocentric framework , whose Protestant core does not significantly change in the next century despite the late - nine- teenth - century surge of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe ...
... variety were the very qualities that had to be suppressed ; they sig- nified threats to the late Victorians ' understanding of social reality as or- dered , stable , and homogeneous . In this book I emphasize a competing cultural ...
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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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