The Genius of Democracy : : Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945 / / Victoria Olwell.
In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but re...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Work of Genius
- Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself ": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work
- Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians
- Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius
- Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation
- Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion
- Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments