American Moderns (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Christine Stansell
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary history
- Time of Work: 1890-1920
- Setting: United States, primarily Manhattan
- Principal Characters: Margaret Anderson, Randolph Bourne, Mabel Dodge, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Hutchins Hapgood, Eugene O’Neill, John Reed, Margaret Sanger
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: New York, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, Literature, 1910’s, Bohemianism, Modernism, 1900’s
- Locales: Manhattan, NY
A professor of history at Princeton University, Christine Stansell displays in American Moderns the same interdisciplinary expertise evident in her earlier study of New York City entitled City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1789-1860 (1986). Her commitment to feminist scholarship connects these volumes with Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1983), edited with Ann Snitow and Sharon Thompson. Stansell currently writes for The New Republic and The London Review of Books.
In this compelling study of the Greenwich Village...
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