The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917

The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917
ISBN-10
0521368685
ISBN-13
9780521368681
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
1989-02-24
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Peter Conn

Description

The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the early years of the twentieth century. Peter Conn discusses literature, painting, music, architecture and politics, using illustrations of the artwork, buildings and popular graphics of the period. The major figures studied include: Henry James, David Graham Phillips, Jack London, W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Charles Ives, John Sloan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfred Steiglitz and Emma Goldman.

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