Title Recovering the new : translatlantic roots of moderism / Edward S. Cutler

Published Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, [2003] ©2003

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Description x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Becoming modern Becoming modern. Contents Pt. I: Modernity, media, and the era of high capitalism. 1. Ephemeral media: aesthetic modernity and early high capitalism. 2. News and the "New Spirit" in art: mass media roots of the temporal aesthetic -- Pt. II: Walter Benjamin's nineteenth century in transatlantic perspective. 3. Ruins of type: on some motifs in Poe. 4. Passage through modernity: Leaves of Grass and the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1853. Conclusion: The persistence of the nineteenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-210) and index Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Influence. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Influence. Comparative literature -- American and European Comparative literature -- European and American American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) -- United States. European literature -- American influences. Modernism (Literature) -- Europe. LC no. 2002009962 ISBN 1584652594 cloth alkaline paper 1584652713 paperback alkaline paper

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