The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
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Abstract
From the 1880s through 1920, the United States shifted from an identity of nativism and protectionism to one marked by an increasingly ambitious international outlook. By the early twentieth century, as Woodrow Wilson would later declare, the United States had become both the literal embodiment of all the earth's peoples and a nation representing all nations and cultures through its ethnic and cultural diversity. This purported capability to connect with all peoples, this book argues, allowed American literary writers to circulate their work internationally and thereby promote not only the nation's literary production but also the nation itself. Reexamining the relationship between progressivism and realism, the book demonstrates that the narratives constructed by American writers articulated a more active role for the United States in world affairs and helped to shift global influence from Europe to North America. From the novels of Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Abraham Cahan to the political and social writings of Woodrow Wilson and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book identifies a shared transnational imaginary that enabled realists and Progressives to articulate a stronger and more active role for the United States in international society.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Transnational Circulation In The Age Of Realism And Progressivism
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From Cosmopolitanism To World-Salvation: The Transnational Imaginary and the Idea of the Progressive State
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Local Color, World Literature, And The Transnational Turn In William Dean Howells's Fiction And Criticism
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Improper Wealth Getting: Henry James, the Rise of Finance Capitalism, and the Emerging Global Cultural Economy
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Migration Systems And Literary Production: The Global Routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun
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Freedom Amongst Aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the Alternative Modernity of Japan
- Coda Modernism, Multiculturalism, and the Legacy of the Mediating Nation
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End Matter
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