Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America

Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America

Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

E. Dobson, James

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

117

Mole

Inglês

9783319884127

15 a 20 dias

454

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Introduction: The American Modernity Crisis and Technology.- Chapter One: Modernity and the Dialectic of Detachment.- Chapter Two: Henry James' Failed Homecoming.- Chapter Three: Theodore Dreiser, Temporary Homes, and the Compensatory "Commemorative State".- Chapter Four: The Telephonic Self: Non-Systemic Systems and Autobiographical Self-Representation.
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life-writing;travel writing;travel memoir;neurological modernity;American modernity crisis;affect theory;Henry James;Theodore Dreiser;The Autobiography of Mark Twain;Phenomenology and autobiography;Railroad travel and space-time compression;spatial distancing in "Rip Van Winkle";modernity, alienation, and Henry James' The American Scene;temporal confusion and A Hoosier Holiday;the effect of the telephone on the self;modern technology and the fin-de-siecle autobiography;The Education and Henry Adams;Henry Adams' views on historiography;Railroads, telephones, and 19th-century American autobiography;American hotel culture and alienation