The Politics of Irony in American Modernism

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Irony and How It Got That Way: An Introduction 1 1 The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s 23 2 Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s 53 3 The Focus of Satire: Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos 101 4 Visible Decisions: Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison 144 Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion 189 Notes 195 Bibliography 245 Index 269 ...