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Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity - Commercial Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
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Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity - Commercial Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial
Cosmopolitanism turns to the author's late fiction, letters, and
essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an
American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art. The
book contextualizes James's writing within a broader cultural and
social history to uncover relationships among increasingly
sensory-focused media technologies, mass-consumer practices, and
developments in literary style when they spread to Europe at the
inception of the era of big business. Combining cultural studies
with neoclassical Marxism and postcolonial theory, the study
addresses a gap in scholarship concerning the rise of literary
modernism as a cosmopolitan phenomenon. Although scholars have
traditionally acknowledged the international character of artists'
participation in this movement, when analyzing the contributions of
American expatriate writers in Europe, they generally assume an
unequal degree of reciprocity in transatlantic cultural exchange
with European artists being more influential than American ones.
This book argues that James identifies a cultural form of American
imperialism that emerged out of a commercialized version of
cosmopolitanism. Yet the author appropriates the arts of modernity
when he realizes that art generated with the mechanized principles
of mass-production spurred a diverse range of aesthetic responses
to other early-twentieth century technological and organizational
innovations.
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