The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945

Victoria Olwell

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

The Genius of Democracy

Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945

Victoria Olwell

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204971

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About this book

Victoria Olwell shows how American fiction helped to catalyze democratic models of female genius, especially in the work of such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein.

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Victoria Olwell teaches English at the University of Virginia.

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"A complex and bracing book. Olwell brings together an unusual group of texts, starting with Emerson and Alcott and ending in the Harlem Renaissance. Her choice of authors includes not only a range of well-known and less well-known writers but also a range of subject positions, allowing Olwell to think about race, gender, class, and nation in sustained ways that go well beyond lip service or expected formulations."—Susan S. Williams, Ohio State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Work of Genius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. “It Spoke Itself ”: Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott’s Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James’s The Bostonians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s There Is Confusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: May 5, 2011
ISBN: 9780812204971