Where the world is not : cultural authority and democratic desire in modern American literature / by Savelson, Kim

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Democracy stumbling: inventing democratic desire, and the will to believe -- A plea for pure culture: the pure science ideal -- The romance for process: means meets ends in Frank Norris's McTeague -- "Where the world is not": cultural interest and disinterest in Willa Cather's The professor's house -- Classes and masses: Willa Cather's "Purely cultural studies" and the "New commercialism" -- "Missionaries of culture": Du Bios' "Higher aims" in Ellison's Invisible man.…”

Where the world is not : cultural authority and democratic desire in modern American literature / by Savelson, Kim

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Democracy stumbling: inventing democratic desire, and the will to believe -- A plea for pure culture: the pure science ideal -- The romance for process: means meets ends in Frank Norris's McTeague -- "Where the world is not": cultural interest and disinterest in Willa Cather's The professor's house -- Classes and masses: Willa Cather's "Purely cultural studies" and the "New commercialism" -- "Missionaries of culture": Du Bios' "Higher aims" in Ellison's Invisible man.…”
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