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A brilliant account of the legary American bohemians, hailed as "the best book ever written about this era, these people, and the ways they shook up our national culture for good" (Michael Kazin)
In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a shabby neighborhood called Greenwich Village set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away sexual prudery, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new.
Christine Stansell offers the first comprehensive history of this legary period. She takes us deep into the downtown bohemia, which brought together creative dissenters from all walks of life: hoboes and Harvard men, society matrons and immigrant Jews, Wobblies and New Women, poets and anarchists. And she depicts their lyrical hopes for the century they felt they were sponsoring -- a radiant vision of modernity, both egalitarian and artful, that flourished briefly, poignantly, until America entered the First World War and patriotism trumped self-expression.
- Sales Rank: #335086 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Holt Paperbacks
- Published on: 2001-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.20" w x 5.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Amazon.com Review
"On or about December 1910," Virginia Woolf once wrote, "human character changed." In the great capitals of Europe and America, the gray veil of Victorian values lifted; modernism, once the province of a few artistic experimenters, took the fore; subjects hitherto not considered to be fit for polite society, from women's rights to free love, became the subjects of parlor discussion.
New York's Greenwich Village, writes Princeton University historian Christine Stansell in this engaging study, became the epicenter of this great social earthquake. Fueled by wealthy patrons and fed by refugees from Europe and the Midwest, New York's once isolated bohemian community generated social trends that would be widely copied, and in the process "made Greenwich Village into a beacon of American possibility in the new age." Among their number were the anarchist politician Emma Goldman, the radical journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant, and the writers Eugene O'Neill and Kenneth Burke, all of whom insisted on making an art form of one's life--and on rattling a few cages while doing so. The individual actors in this social revolution, Stansell observes, may be little remembered today, but elements of their belief--openness in social relationships, equality among men and women, and "a skepticism at once relentlessly questioning of America and entirely embroiled in its future"--are our common coin today. --Gregory McNamee
From Publishers Weekly
They were novelists, artists' models, secretaries and chess whizzes; their ranks included Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Sanger and John Reed. A few were wealthy, many were poor, and they gathered in shabby saloons to argue about free love and Nietzsche as they plowed through mounds of spaghetti, brisket and bratwurst. In her latest book, Princeton historian Stansell (City of Women) examines the politics and cultural impact of the turn-of-the-20th-century American "bohemia." Combining newly imported European political awareness (Stansell says refugees from the 1905-1907 Russian Revolution arrived with "their saber wounds still festering") with institutionally guaranteed free speech, these New York radicals were much more open to the inclusion of Jews and women than their Old World counterparts. And even though they generally ignored black aspirations, Stansell argues that the bohemians created "the first full-bodied alternative to an established cultural elite," which undermined "the smug faith that culture was the domain of the well-born and tasteful" and dug "channels between high and low culture, outsiders and insiders." By so doing--despite their racial blinders--they made possible the cultural course of much of the 20th century: pioneering feminist ideas, helping to make New York the cultural capital of the nation and laying the groundwork for the African-American crossover that took place during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. If Stansell's grasshopperish prose occasionally jumps from one topic to another, it's only because her thorough and engaging study abounds with the superabundant energy it describes. B&w photos. (May)
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From Library Journal
A Princeton historian on how Greenwich Village became Greenwich Village.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating, First-rate History of Greenwich Village
By Lloyd Williams
Did you ever wonder how this one tiny area of The City evolved into a sanctuary for artists, writers, the excluded and those otherwise constrained by the conventional? Wonder no more. Thanks to Christine Stansell, professor of history at Princeton University, we have the informatively compelling American Moderns, the first comprehensive portrait of that transformational, turn-of-the-century avant garde dedicated to free thought, free speech, free love, even free sex in the face of a persistently Victorian ethic. This seminal work represents an exhaustive exploration of a cultural phenomenon which irreversibly altered not only a band of bohemians, but the psyche of modern America itself. Sure, this country has somehow moved from the 19th Century's wicked repression and exploitation of children, women, minorities and the waves of immigrants who made their way to these shores. But how? In an alternately erudite and entertaining style, Ms. Stansell makes her case, as she breathes life into archival materials which include the papers and memoirs of Emma Goldman, Mabel Dodge, Georgia O'Keefe, painter John Sloan, Margaret Sanger and many other pioneers of the era.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A solid introduction
By David A. Bede
Although the 1910s are often thought of as the tail end of the Progressive Era, Stansell makes a strong case that that decade actually saw the genesis of a social progressivism that slammed the door on the Victorian era in America. She also argues - a bit less convincingly - that the 1910s marked the beginning of New York's Greenwich Village as we now know it. But whether you accept the latter thesis or not, there is no doubt that the legendary neighborhood played host to some of the most important social activism of the early twentieth century. Stansell provides an impressive overview of the events and the lives of the people behind them.
Given the sheer magnitude of her subject, Stansell is necessarily sketchy in places, and the book suffers on occasion from an overly wordy, academic style. But she does provide a succinct look at the era's most important activists: especially Emma Goldman and also Randolph Bourne, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Mabel Dodge and many others. The book doesn't pretend to be a biography of any of them but does whet the reader's appetite for learning more about them all. The same is true of the events it describes, particularly the successes and failures of the labor movement and the evolution of the feminist movement beyond advocacy of women's suffrage. (A particularly fascinating part of Stansell's story is the tension between labor and feminism, a division that stymied the left back then much as it does now.) Stansell ends her narrative with a brief assessment of the Red Scare and the quick end it put to the radicalism she delineates earlier in the book. She doesn't really examine the social progress of the otherwise-conservative 1920s and beyond or demonstrate how the radicalism of the 1910s laid the groundwork for it; but the case for that is quite clear after reading this.
The book contains little contextual information regarding the societal conditions of the preceding decades and almost none for the following ones, so Stansell's argument is easier to appreciate if you already have some knowledge of those times. Still, it is a good overview of an underappreciated bridge between two well-documented eras, the people who got us across that bridge, and the environment they lived in. If you want to learn about America in the 1910s, this book may or may not tell you all you want to know. But if not, it will definitely lay the groundwork for understanding whatever event or person you're most interested in.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Dissenting from Bourgeois America
By Steven S. Berizzi
Princeton University historian Christine Stansell's City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 was splendid, and this book, which examines the creation of a "bohemian" sub-culture in New York City in the 1890s, also is superb. (The image of "bohemia" as the antithesis to middle-class values owes much to Puccini's opera "La Bohème," which was first produced in 1896.) According to Stansell, bohemian New York "was one manifestation of gathering revulsion against a society that seemed locked in a stranglehold of bourgeois resolve." That is an intriguing thesis, and Stansell provides wonderfully-evocative profiles of many of the New York pioneers of American modernism. Anyone interested in the origins and development of 20th-century American culture should read this extraordinary book.
Stansell succinctly defines bohemia as the "revolt against bourgeois convention," and she writes that New York's bohemia was widely believed to be peopled with "youthful libertines who despised bourgeois respectability and material success." One respect in which bohemia rejected middle-class certainties was to permit innovation in gender relations, and the appearance of the "New Women" in New York beginning in the 1890 is among the most important events Stansell describes.
What Stansell characterizes as the "dissent from bourgeois life" took many forms, and it is difficult to generalize without oversimplifying, but her chapter on political radical Emma Goldman begins with the important point that modernism tended to merge "disparate phenomena." According to Stansell, Goldman "championed modern dance and modern drama, free love, homosexuality, and martyrs of the labor movement," and she was a forceful advocate of "militant anticapitalism." I would recommend this book solely for Stansell's multi-part sketch of Goldman.
Stansell's discussion of changes in the publishing industry also is excellent. According to Stansell established publishes were increasingly criticized as "aging, smug, priggish, stodgy," attributes which probably could have been assigned to middle-class leaders of all facets of turn-of-the-century American society. In contrast, Stansell writes, independent publishers, "mostly well-off German Jews," marketed literature with a political nature, as well as "birth control information, pornography, and papers advocating free love." Stansell incisively observes that the frequent battles of this era concerning censorship laws were part of a broader "contest for cultural authority..., a battle over who was to determine the content of literature," and censorship opponents "were delighted to find themselves free-speech heroes."
Stansell's discussion of the political and cultural content of the revolt against middle-class America demonstrates the complex interplay of ideas, as does the section of her book entitled "The Human Sex." According to Stansell, the moderns rejected the "crippling convention of their parents' generation [that] had set the sexes against each other by segregating people into separate spheres." It probably is not surprising that, in addition to advocating sexual democracy, radicals of this era often supported women's suffrage. Furthermore, Stansell writes, "controversy over contraception often "turned into a free speech issue." Stansell's bohemians had liberated attitudes toward sexual activity, and she notes that "free love" also signified talking and writing about [sex], a lively discourse of sexual conversation and revelation."
I suspect that Stansell goes to far when she asserts that there was a "crisis of the bourgeoisie" beginning in the 1890s. Indeed, I would argue that there have been few periods in American history when middle-class values were more dominant. But Stansell is absolutely correct that the New York bohemians' resistance to bourgeois hegemony challenged numerous conventions of American society and culture, and many members of the American middle-class considered themselves to be under assault.
Most of the books I read concern military or political history, but Christine Stansell's American Moderns was fascinating, and I recommend it without qualification.
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