001478254 000__ 06820nam\a22007815i\4500 001478254 001__ 1478254 001478254 003__ DE-B1597 001478254 005__ 20231026034853.0 001478254 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478254 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478254 008__ 220524t20212000mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478254 020__ $$a9780674028715 001478254 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674028715$$2doi 001478254 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574300 001478254 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1257324680 001478254 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478254 0410_ $$aeng 001478254 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478254 050_4 $$aPS374.D45$$bB73 2000eb 001478254 072_7 $$aHIS036040$$2bisacsh 001478254 08204 $$a973.5 001478254 1001_ $$aBramen, Carrie Tirado, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478254 24514 $$aThe Uses of Variety :$$bModern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness /$$cCarrie Tirado Bramen. 001478254 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2021] 001478254 264_4 $$c©2000 001478254 300__ $$a1 online resource (394 p.) 001478254 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478254 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478254 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478254 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478254 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478254 520__ $$aThe turn of the last century, amid the excesses of the Gilded Age, variety became a key notion for Americans'a sign of national progress and development, reassurance that the modern nation would not fall into monotonous dullness or disorderly chaos. Carrie Tirado Bramen pursues this idea through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres ranging from intra-urban walking tours in popular magazines to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, she shows how the rhetoric of variety became naturalized and nationalized as quintessentially American and inherently democratic. By focusing on the uses of the term in the work of William James, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hamlin Garland, and Wong Chin Foo, among many others, Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism. Bramen's innovation is to look at the debates of a century ago that established diversity as the distinctive feature of U.S. culture. In the late-nineteenth-century conception, which emphasized the openness of variety while at the same time acknowledging its limits, she finds a useful corrective to the contemporary tendency to celebrate the United States as a postmodern melange or a carnivalesque utopia of hybridity and difference.Table of Contents: Introduction: Americanizing Variety I. The Ideological Formation of Pluralism 1. William James and the Modern Federal Republic 2. Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism II. The Aesthetics of Diversity 3. The Uneven Development of American Regionalism 4. The Urban Picturesque and Americanization III. Heterogeneous Unions 5. Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory 6. East Meets West at the World's Parliament of Religions Afterword: In Defense of Partiality Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments IndexReviews of this book: [Bramen] brings dogged research and steady focus to [a] central ambiguity in the American ethos.Her study delivers several powerful messages even plain-talking people can understand. For one, Bramen shows that issues of ethnic diversity and variety, far from being epiphenomena of the last few decades, course through our history and spotlight the ambiguities in what it means to be an American.The Uses of Variety boasts gems.of past cultural history that remind us these are perennial issues.[Bramen's] penetrating expedition through the nuances of America's breast-beating about 'diversity within unity' concentrates the mind. Out of many examples comes an important book: a flinty challenge to intellectual complacency about ourselves.--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia InquirerThe Uses of Variety is a significant addition to and revision of a century of American pragmatist thinking about difference. Bramen brings new conceptual tools to bear on the history of multicultural thought and literature and thereby avoids the common pitfalls to produce an important survey and synthesis.--Tom Lutz, author of American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History and editor of These 'Colored' United States: African American Essays from the 1920sCarrie Bramen offers a compelling, intellectually rigorous history of the protean idea of pluralism, a concept that has been embraced heartily by both liberals and conservatives as essential in defining American identity. Situating pluralism in philosophical, psychological, aesthetic, and political contexts, Bramen brings a fresh perspective to illuminating the meaning of the term for late Victorian America and, significantly, its legacy for us today.--Linda Simon, author of Genuine Reality: A Life 001478254 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478254 546__ $$aIn English. 001478254 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. 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