Contents
Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................7
Preface..............................................................................................................................9
Introduction..................................................................................................................14
Dos Passos and the Modern....................................................................................15
Doctorow's "Historicism".........................................................................................18
Notes..........................................................................................................................21
Body................................................................................................................................23
Doctorow and the Female Body: Nesbit & Goldman............................................24
The Limits of Bodily Disciplinization: Houdini......................................................27
Middle Class Bodies and "the Other":
Father and Mother..............................................................................................28
The Great Manipulator with a Cold Body: J. Ward Moorehouse........................34
The Price of Class: Eleanor Stoddard.....................................................................42
The Docile Female Body: Janey..............................................................................46
Conclusion.................................................................................................................51
Notes..........................................................................................................................52
Mexico............................................................................................................................54
Radical with a Different Cause: Mac.......................................................................54
A Successful Revolutionary: Younger Brother......................................................60
Mexico: The Space Outside.....................................................................................62
Conclusion.................................................................................................................66
Notes..........................................................................................................................67
Film.................................................................................................................................69
Structural Affinities: Griffith, Eisenstein, Dos Passos..........................................71
Newsreel and The Camera Eye...............................................................................72
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The Ambiguities of American Success: Tateh.......................................................74
Conclusion.................................................................................................................80
Music..............................................................................................................................81
Ragtime in Ragtime...................................................................................................81
The Master of Ragtime: Scott Joplin.......................................................................88
The Ragtime Revival.................................................................................................91
Dos Passos* Popular: A Modernist's Elitism..........................................................94
Conclusion.................................................................................................................97
Notes..........................................................................................................................98
Race.................................................................................................................................99
Racism and Radical Resistance: Coalhouse Walker Jr........................................100
The Limits of Vision: John Dos Passos.................................................................103
Conclusion...............................................................................................................109
Notes........................................................................................................................110
Literature and Works Cited....................................................................................112
Index.............................................................................................................................114
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