@book{3a63bf39c9c44033b0d415f292bf354f,
title = "Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life",
abstract = "This book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere{\textquoteright}s work on aesthetics and politics to develop a mode of reading class and culture that challenges conventional interpretations that pit the two modes of representation in opposition. It paints a picture of the late-nineteenth century, prior to modernism, as an aesthetically exciting, original, and politically radical stage in American life to reinvigorate realism as a radical aesthetic practice, with implications for understandings of American literature both in the past and into the future.",
keywords = "anarchism, anthropology, class, culture, modernism, realism, America, Progressive Era",
author = "Michael Collins",
year = "2023",
month = sep,
day = "22",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781474456722",
series = "Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century ",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
}