The mediating nation : late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state / Nathaniel Cadle.

Contents Introduction: Transnational circulation in the age of realism and progressivism -- From cosmopolitanism to world-salvation: the transnational imaginary and the idea of the progressive state -- Local color, world literature, and the transnational turn in William Dean Howells's fiction and criticism -- Improper wealth getting: Henry James, the rise of finance capitalism, and the emerging global cultural economy -- Migration systems and literary production: the global routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun -- Freedom amongst aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the alternative modernity of Japan -- Coda: Modernism, multiculturalism, and the legacy of the mediating nation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014008429
ISBN9781469618456 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN1469618451 (pbk : alk. paper)

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