Verlag:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
Introduction: the politics of proximity --Sites of contact: the settlement house --The problem with comparison: the working girls' club --Correlation and conformity: from the African American college to the Harlem renaissance --Forms of mediation:...
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Introduction: the politics of proximity --Sites of contact: the settlement house --The problem with comparison: the working girls' club --Correlation and conformity: from the African American college to the Harlem renaissance --Forms of mediation: undercover literature --Coda: twenty-first century afterlives. Reading for Reform rewrites the literary history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, putting social reform institutions at the center of literary and cultural analysis. It tells a new story about the fate of literary practice and the idea of literature's practical value, during the years when modernist authors were proclaiming art's autonomy from concepts of social utility. - from book cover
