Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual; 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities; 2. Realizing Trilby: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene; 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice; 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York; 5. Gertrude Stein Talking; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
Virtual Modernism examines the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, Katherine Biers argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies
