{"product_id":"utopia-and-cosmopolis-globalization-in-the-era-of-american-literary-realism-9780822322474","title":"Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Peyser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In \u003ci\u003eUtopia and Cosmopolis\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a reevaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a new context for understanding contemporary debates about America's relation to the rest of the world.\u003cbr\u003eApplying current theoretical work on globalization to the writing of authors as diverse as Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, Peyser reveals the ways in which turn-of-the-century American writers struggled to understand the future in a newly emerging global community. Because the pressures of globalization at once fostered the formation of an American national culture and made national culture less viable as a source of identity, authors grappled to find a form of fiction that could accommodate the contradictions of their condition. \u003ci\u003eUtopia and Cosmopolis\u003c\/i\u003e unites utopian and realist narratives in subtle, startling ways through an examination of these writers' aspirations and anxieties. Whether exploring the first vision of a world brought together by the power of consumer culture, or showing how different cultures could be managed when reconceived as specimens in a museum, this book steadily extends the horizons within which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture can be understood.\u003cbr\u003eRanging widely over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, \u003ci\u003eUtopia and Cosmopolis\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to debates about utopian thought, globalization, and American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591365214359,"sku":"9780822322474","price":3249.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822322474.webp?v=1774972672","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/utopia-and-cosmopolis-globalization-in-the-era-of-american-literary-realism-9780822322474","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}