WHERE THE WORLD IS NOT: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature by Kim Savelson
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Democracy Stumbling: Inventing, Democratic Desire, and the Will to Believe
Democratic Invention
Chapter 1. A Plea for Pure Culture: The Pure Science Ideal
The End of Culture
Chapter 2. The Romance of Process: Means Meets Ends in Frank Norris’s McTeague
Far from the World
Chapter 3. “Where the World Is Not”: Cultural Interest and Disinterest in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House
Just Thinking
The Business of Science
Disinterest, Democracy, and “Culture”
Historical Idealism
Classes and Masses
Money and Exchange
Self-Sufficiency and Moral Victory
Meaning and Exposure
Art and Propaganda
I. The Higher Aims and the Democratic Ideal
II. A Raft of Hope: Fiction and the Democratic Ideal
A Social Act
Coda
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Coda
Bibliography
Index