TY - BOOK AU - Cadle,Nathaniel ED - Project Muse. TI - The mediating nation: late American realism, globalization, and the progressive state SN - 9781469618470 AV - PS228.R38 C33 2014 U1 - 810.9/12 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - United States KW - Literature and transnationalism KW - Multiculturalism in literature KW - Progressivism in literature KW - Realism in literature KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Transnational circulation in the age of realism and progressivism -- From cosmopolitanism to world-salvation: the transnational imaginary and the idea of the progressive state -- Local color, world literature, and the transnational turn in William Dean Howells's fiction and criticism -- Improper wealth getting: Henry James, the rise of finance capitalism, and the emerging global cultural economy -- Migration systems and literary production: the global routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun -- Freedom amongst aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the alternative modernity of Japan -- Coda: Modernism, multiculturalism, and the legacy of the mediating nation UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469618470/ ER -