This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms AMERICAN MODERNS This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms AMERICAN MODERNS York and the ntury With a new preface by the author CHRISTINE STANSELL PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW Copyright © 2000 by Christine Stansell Preface © 2010 by Christine Stansell All Rights Reserved First edition, 2000 First Princeton edition, with a new preface, 2010 John Reed Papers quoted by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University Library of Congress Control Number 2009931094 ISBN: 978-0-691-14283-8 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Printed on acid-free paper. °° press.princeton.edu 1 3 5 79 10 8 6 42 TITLE PAGE IMAGE: Albert Gleizes. New York. 1915. © 2009 ARTISTS RIGI ITS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For Sean Wilentz This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:05:23 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Preface to the 2009 Edition ix Prologue 1 I. BOHEMIA 1 Bohemian Beginnings in the 1890s 11 2 Journeys to Bohemia 40 II. TALKING 3 Intellectuals, Conversational Politics, and Free Speech 73 4 Emma Goldman and the Modern Public 120 III. WRITING 5 Art and Life: Modernity and Literary Sensibilities 141 6 Writer Friends: Literary Friendships and the Romance of Partisanship 178 IV. THE HUMAN SEX 7 Sexual Modernism 225 8 Talking about Sex 273 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:18:02 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents V. FORMER PEOPLE 9 Loving America with Open Eyes 311 Notes 339 Acknowledgments 405 Index 407 Vlll This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:18:02 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms