American Moderns Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

Name: American Moderns Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
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ISBN: 9780691142838

ISBN-10: 0691142831

ISBN-13: 9780691142838

Edition: 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Christine Stansell

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In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods--home to art, poetry, cafes, and cabarets in the European tradition--provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. Some called themselves Bohemians, some members of the avant-garde, but all took pleasure in the exotic, new, and forbidden.InAmerican Moderns, Christine Stansell tells the story of the most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which--thanks to cultural icons such as Eugene O'Neil, Isadora Duncan, and Emma Goldman--became a symbol…

Book details

List price: $67.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.21" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Christine Stansell, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author of "City of Women: Sex & Class in New York City, 1789-1860". Her essays & reviews appear regularly in The New Republic & The London Review of Books. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.



Preface to the 2009 Edition


Prologue



Bohemia



Bohemian Beginnings in the 1890s



Journeys to Bohemia



Talking



Intellectuals, Conversational Politics, and Free Speech



Emma Goldman and the Modern Public



Writing



Art and Life: Modernity and Literary Sensibilities



Writer Friends: Literary Friendships and the Romance of Partisanship



The Human Sex



Sexual Modernism



Talking about Sex



Former People



Loving America with Open Eyes


Notes


Acknowledgment


Index