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CONTENTS

Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism

PART I High Modernism in America: Self and Society in the Early Cold War

One. Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism

Two. Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman

Three. Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown’s Freudian Revisions

PART II The Revolt of Romantic Modernism: Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians

Four. A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills

Five. Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin’s Gift of Love

Six. Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns

Seven. Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin

PART III The Challenge of Late Modernism

Eight. Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison

Conclusion. The Legacy of Late Modernism

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments