The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era

1. Introduction
Lisa Szefel

2. Genteel Designs, Modern Renovations: Poetics and the Poetic Community from Hearth to Dynamo
Lisa Szefel

3. Reforming Verse, Uplifting Society: The Labor Theory of Poetic Value
Lisa Szefel

4. Curating a Community, Engineering a Renaissance: A New Infrastructure for the “New Beauty”
Lisa Szefel

5. Rescripting Gender Codes, Redrawing the Color Line: Anthologies and the Dream of Aesthetic Universalism
Lisa Szefel

6. Paring Words, Crafting Images: The Economy of Authorship in the Literary Marketplace
Lisa Szefel

7. Romantic Individualism, Radical Politics: Lyric Solidarity in Peace and War
Lisa Szefel

8. Epilogue
Lisa Szefel

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of the Americas, Social History, US History, Modern History