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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
by Stansell, Christine
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0805048472
- ISBN 13
- 9780805048476
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000. viii, 420 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A brilliant account of the American bohemians whose experiments in living, writing, and loving created the modern world and made New York its capital. In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a shabby neighborhood called Greenwich Village set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away sexual prudery, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new. Christine Stansell offers the first comprehensive history of this legary period. She takes us deep into the downtown bohemia, which brought together creative dissenters from all walks of life: hobos and Harvard men, society matrons and immigrant Jews, wobblies and New Women, poets and anarchists. And she depicts their lyrical hopes for the century they felt they were sponsoring-a radiant vision of modernity, both egalitarian and artful, that flourished briefly, poignantly, until America entered the First World War and patriotism trumped self-expression. / Christine Stansell, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author of City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1789-1860. Her essays and reviews appear regularly in The New Republic and The London Review of Books. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Bohemian Beginnings in the 1890s; Journeys to Bohemia; Intellectuals, Conversational Politics, and Free Speech; Emma Goldman and the Modern Public; Art and Life: Modernity and Literary Sensibilities; Writer Friends: Literary Friendships and the Romance of Partisanship; Sexual Modernism; Talking About Sex; Loving America with Open Eyes.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
- Author
- Stansell, Christine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0805048472
- ISBN 13
- 9780805048476
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Women Artists; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945;
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