Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism 1
4. Part I. High Modernism in America Self and Society in the Early Cold War
5. Chapter One Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism 21
6. Chapter Two Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman 54
7. Chapter Three Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown’s Freudian Revisions 90
8. Part II. The Revolt of Romantic Modernism Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians
9. Chapter Four A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills 127
10. Chapter Five Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin’s Gift of Love 164
11. Chapter Six Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns 197
12. Chapter Seven Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin 236
13. Part III. The Challenge of Late Modernism
14. Chapter Eight Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison 273
15. Conclusion The Legacy of Late Modernism 309
16. NOTES 325
17. INDEX 363
18. Acknowledgments 373