American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Stansell, Christine
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Stansell, Christine

American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York...
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Author: Christine Stansell
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Language: English
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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Stansell, Christine

American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

$151.86
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Stansell, Christine

American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

$151.86
Author: Christine Stansell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods--home to art, poetry, cafes, and cabarets in the European tradition--provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. Some called themselves Bohemians, some members of the avant-garde, but all took pleasure in the exotic, new, and forbidden.

In American Moderns, Christine Stansell tells the story of the most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which--thanks to cultural icons such as Eugene O'Neill, Isadora Duncan, and Emma Goldman--became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom. Stansell eloquently explains how the mixing of old and new worlds, politics and art, and radicalism and commerce so characteristic of New York shaped the modern American urban scene. American Moderns is both an examination and a celebration of a way of life that's been nearly forgotten.

Author: Christine Stansell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 12/06/2009
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780691142838

About the Author
Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1789-1860, and her essays and reviews appear regularly in the New Republic.
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