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Cruising Modernism - Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Cruising Modernism - Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Modern society, Michael Trask argues in this incisive and original
book, chose to couch class difference in terms of illicit
sexuality. Trask demonstrates how sexual science's concept of
erotic perversion mediated the writing of both literary figures and
social theorists when it came to the innovative and unsettling
social arrangements of the early twentieth century. Trask focuses
on the James brothers in a critique of pragmatism and
anti-immigrant sentiment, shows the influence of behavioral
psychology on Gertrude Stein's work, uncovers a sustained
reflection on casual labor in Hart Crane's lyric poetry, and traces
the identification of working-class Catholics with deviant passions
in Willa Cather's fiction. Finally, Trask examines how literary
leftists borrowed the antiprostitution rhetoric of Progressive-era
reformers to protest the ascendence of consumerism in the 1920s.
Viewing class as a restless and unstable category, Trask contends,
American modernist writers appropriated sexology's concept of
evasive, unmoored desire to account for the seismic shift in social
relations during the Progressive era and beyond. Looking closely at
the fraught ideological space between real and perceived class
differences, "Cruising Modernism discloses there a pervasive
representation of sexuality as well.
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