Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era

Index

· 257 · Index Abbott, Lyman, 16 actual, 94; discontinuous and, 207n46; virtual and, 207n46 actualization, 66, 72, 91, 101 Adams, Henry, 7, 203n21 Adams, Rachel, 244n51 Adorno, Theodor, 41, 117 afterimage: metaphor of, 18 Agamben, Giorgio, 1, 209n67, 253n70 allegory, 51–53, 155–57 Alsop, Joseph, 179 “American Education and Colleges” (Stein), 195 “American Newspapers” (Stein), 192, 194 anti-imperialism, 43, 215n35, 217n58 Aristotle, 2, 3, 206n42 Armory Show, 176, 177, 248n12 Armstrong, Tim: on Barnes, 245n56 Arnold, Matthew, 100 Arsić, Branka, 211n80, 213n8, 255n59 “Art of Fiction, The” (James), 92, 94 “Art of the Novel, The” (James), 99 Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein), 177, 185, 186; popularity of, 173, 176 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Johnson), 31, 109, 111, 128–38, 233n52, 235n74, 236n81, 237n83; Souls and, 125, 234n65 autopoesis, 113, 122, 136 Baldwin, James Mark, 205n35 Bancroft, John Chandler, 106 Barnes, Djuna, 7, 17, 139–72, 238n2, 240n13, 245n57, 245n62; allegory and, 171; The Antiphon, 141, 238n4; Barney and, 238–39n4; baroque style and, 31, 141, 142, 153, 158, 163, 239n10; baroque theatricality and, 168, 244n50; boxing and, 162–64, 245n56; Chinatown and, 167, 168; criminals and, 149, 151, 156, 159, 243n44; Enright and, 149–51, 153, 157, 170; feminist readings of, 239n11; institutions/organizations and, 158; interviews by, 148; journalism of, 140–44, 158, 161, 164–65, 171; The Ladies Almanack, 141, 238n4; metaphors and, 142; mourning play and, 153–58; neobaroque style of, 141, 144, 162–63, 238n4; Nightwood, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 238n4, 239n5, 240n14, 245n62; reporting by, 243n38; Ryder, 141, 348n4; social problems and, 168; tropes of, 172; vertical cosmology of, 143; visual style of, 240n14; voluntarism and, 170 Barnes, Zadel, 238n2 Barney, Natalie, 238n2 baroque, 141, 147, 153–58, 163, 244n45 baroque style, 31, 142, 144 258 INDEX baroque theater, 153, 156, 158, 168, 244n50 Barthes, Roland, 231n34 Bataille, Georges, 203n20 Baudelaire, Charles, 17, 19, 153, 244n50 Beard, George M.: neurasthenia and, 116 “Beast in the Jungle, The” (James), 90, 93, 96 Beer, Thomas: Crane and, 213n16 Benfey, Christopher, 38, 213n18 Benjamin, Walter, 20, 168–69; afterimage and, 18; allegory and, 156; Barnes and, 243n38; baroque and, 144, 153–54, 156, 243n39, 243–44n44; on Baudelaire, 244n50; Bergson and, 17–19, 209n66; hidden index and, 19, 28; institutions/organizations and, 158; James and, 209n68; Kraus and, 143; modernity and, 21; mourning play (trauerspiel) and, 153–58, 161; The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 153, 157; Reformation and, 243n41 Bentley, Nancy, 5, 42, 60, 128n63 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 212n8, 213n8 Bergson, Henri, 2–3, 6–8, 10, 12–15, 17, 97, 201n7, 206n40, 208n57; Benjamin and, 17–19, 209n66; body/indetermination and, 13; choice/free will and, 25; conjunctive relations and, 12; Creative Evolution, 13, 16, 208n57, 260n42; Darwinism and, 13, 207n45; Deleuze and, 202n7; duration and, 13, 15, 19, 206n41; empiricism and, 206n36; experimental psychology and, 206n42; indirect value of, 18; James and, 7, 11–16, 21, 24, 205n35, 207n51, 208n61; Matter and Memory, 12, 13, 18; metaphysical language of, 207–8n51; mind and, 24; philosophy of, 16, 18; representation and, 12–13; Time and Free Will, 13; virtual experience and, 21; virtual mental image and, 206n43 Bergsonism, 208n57, 208n60 Bersani, Leo, 91, 93, 106; James and, 90, 225n62; on phenomenology of the look, 92 Bertillon, Alphonse, 242n34 Best, Stephen M., 230n14 black culture, 111, 113, 122, 126, 127, 128; popular/vernacular forms of, 235n72; state violence and, 230n14 blackness, 113, 127, 229n6, 230n12 black vernacular, 128, 236n77 Bly, Nellie, 140 Boone, Joseph, 177 Bosanquet, Theodora, 210n74 Boudreau, Kristin, 210n72 Bourke-White, Margaret, 180 Bourne, Randolph, 16, 122–24, 233n59; on American culture, 123; cultural criticism of, 233n55; radical democratic vision of, 209n62 boxing, women and, 162–64, 245n56 Brentano, Franz, 9, 204n26 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 159, 167 Brown, Bill, 36, 62, 212n4, 237n83 Browne, Thomas, 239n10 Burrows, Stuart, 223n52, 227n78 Burton, Robert, 147, 239n10 Byrnes, Thomas, 148, 150 cakewalk, 130, 131, 231n18, 236n77 Calvinism, 145, 148, 149, 154 Cameron, Sharon, 68, 71, 89, 213n9, 228n88 Castronovo, Russ, 241n22 Cather, Willa, 7 INDEX 259 Cavell, Stanley, 28, 37, 219n79, 246n7 celebrity, 177, 185–98, 203n13, 248n17 Chaplin, Charlie, 178 “Chinatown’s Glories Crumbled to Dust” (Barnes), 167–68 Chisholm, Diane, 243n38 Chopin, Frédéric, 132, 135, 236n77 Chopin, Kate: The Awakening, 7 Citizen Kane (film), 41 clarity, 180, 181, 189, 197, 214n20 classical music, 115, 117, 128, 129; American, 119; ragging of, 132; spirituals and, 133 Coburn...