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American moderns : bohemian New York and the creation of a new century

"In the early years of the new century, an exuberant band of talented individualists thrown together in a shabby neighborhood - a few square blocks called Greenwich Village - set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away late-Vict...

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Main Author: Stansell, Christine.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Bohemianism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bohemian beginnings in the 1890s
  • Journeys to Bohemia
  • Intellectuals, conversational politics, and free speech
  • Emma Goldman and the modern public
  • Art and life: modernity and literary sensibilities
  • Writer friends: literary friendships and the romance of partisanship
  • Sexual modernism
  • Talking about sex
  • Loving America with open eyes.

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