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**Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century** * Historicizes and theorizes the role and function of the little art community as a geo-social formation * Comparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sites * New readings of major authors Jeffers, O’Neill, and Lawrence * Interdisciplinary methodology based in primary source analysis * Challenges a center-periphery model of modernist activity and literary-aesthetic production and instead emphasizes a network-based, collaborative model This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production. Alongside a historical overview of the emergence of three critical sites of modernist activity – the little art colonies of Carmel, Provincetown and Taos – the book offers new critical readings of major authors associated with those places: Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O’Neill and D. H. Lawrence. Geneva M. Gano tracks the radical thought and aesthetic innovation that emerged from these villages, revealing a surprisingl

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Author

Gano Geneva M. Gano

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474439763

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Art