Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Book

Introduction: The Analytic Instinct and the Art of the Crash 1

1 Literature and the Museum Idea 22

2 Realism and the Gordian Knot of Aesthetics and Politics 69

3 Women and the Realism of Desire 109

4 Celebrity Warriors, Impossible Diplomats, and the Native Public Sphere 151

5 Black Bohemia and the African American Novel 188

6 Wharton, Mass Travel, and the "Possible Crash" 218

7 Neurological Modernity and American Social Thought 247

Conclusion: Literary Analysis and the Perception of Incongruities 288

Notes 303

Index 349

Acknowledgments 363