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9780805048476

American Moderns : Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805048476

  • ISBN10:

    0805048472

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-05-03
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books
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Summary

Stansell offers a brilliant account of the American bohemians whose experiments in living, writing, and loving created the modern world and made New York its capital. 15 illustrations.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1(10)
I. BOHEMIA
Bohemian Beginnings in the 1890s
11(29)
Journeys to Bobemia
40(33)
II. TALKING
Intellectuals, Conversational Politics, and Free Speech
73(47)
Emma Goldman and the Modern Public
120(27)
III. WRITING
Art and Life: Modernity and Literary Sensibilities
147(31)
Writer Friends: Literary Friendships and the Romance of Partisanship
178(47)
IV. THE HUMAN SEX
Sexual Modernism
225(48)
Talking about Sex
273(38)
V. FORMER PEOPLE
Loving America with Open Eyes
311(28)
Notes 339(66)
Acknowledgments 405(2)
Index 407

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