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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Frantic panoramas : American literature and mass culture, 1870-1920 by Nancy Bentley. ISBN 9780812241747. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
