| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture. By David Kadlec. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 331 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6438-0.)

Combining close readings of canonical texts with insights from key authors' letters, reading notes, and other papers, David Kadlec has produced a compelling examination of literary modernism's intellectual roots in European anarchism and U.S. pragmatism. In doing so, he attempts to politicize a movement notoriously enigmatic in its engagement with material concerns of the day. By linking individual writers with such early-twentieth-century matters as eugenics, the gold standard, sexual disease, prohibition, immigration, and racial identity, Kadlec proves once again that modernism grew out of doors, sustaining itself on far more than aesthetically ambitious introspection. He says little about modernism's contribution to political discourse overall. For all its contextualist attention to the period's social thought, this remains a work of literary criticism focusing on the compositional qualities of modernist prose and verse. . . .

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