Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-348) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The analytic instinct and the art of the crash -- Literature and the museum idea -- Realism and the gordian knot of aesthetics and politics -- Women and the realism of desire -- Celebrity warriors, impossible diplomats, and the native public sphere -- Black Bohemia and the African American novel -- Wharton, mass travel, and the "possible crash" -- Neurological modernity and American social thought -- Conclusion: Literary analysis and the perception of incongruities.
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