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.

1. The temper of the times; 2. The triumph of reaction: Henry James; 3. Restoration as reform: David Graham Phillips; 4. It couldn't happen here: the failure of socialism in America; 5. One being black: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Bois, and others; 6. Woman's place: Edith Wharton and others; 7. Building the past and the future: Ralph Adams Cram, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others; 8. Innovation and nostalgia: Charles Ives; 9. Realism and modernism: John sloan. Alfred Steiglitz and others; 10. A glimpse into the twenty-first century: Emma Goldman.

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NLS9780521368681

ISBN 13

9780521368681

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0521368685

Title

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

Author

Peter Conn

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year published

1989-02-24

Number of pages

372

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