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Pragmatic Modernism is an impressive work of intellectual and literary history. It's clearly the product of deep reading and understanding and a real devotion to the ideas and thinkers it painstakingly explains and uses. It will strongly appeal to Americanists, modernists, and intellectual historians. --Ross Posnock, Columbia University Establishing continuities between philosophical pragmatism and the work of modernist writers, Lisi Schoenbach's sustained analysis of the idea of habit provides a hugely impressive rethinking of the intellectual genealogy of modernism. Pragmatism's attention to everyday minutiae and social complexity informs Schoenbach's incisive re-readings. A wonderfully gripping and thought-provoking work of scholarship. --Michael Sheringham, University of Oxford Clearly written and forcefully argued, Lisi Schoenbach's book contrasts the avant-garde's reliance on 'shock' with the pragmatists' attention to 'habit.' The result is a compelling revisionist account of modernism by way of splendid readings of Gertrude Stein and Henry James in company with the pragmatist trio of William James, John Dewey, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. --John McGowan, University of North Carolina One of the most refreshing treatments of transatlantic modernism I've read in a long time, Lisi Schoenbach's Pragmatic Modernism highlights a crucial yet neglected strain of modernist thought and practice that stresses the dialectic between habit and rupture, the importance of institutionalization, and the value of recontextualization in contrast to immediate and total transformation. --George B. Hutchinson, Indiana University

<br> Pragmatic Modernism is an impressive work of intellectual and literary history. It's clearly the product of deep reading and understanding and a real devotion to the ideas and thinkers it painstakingly explains and uses. It will strongly appeal to Americanists, modernists, and intellectual historians. --Ross Posnock, Columbia University<p><br> Establishing continuities between philosophical pragmatism and the work of modernist writers, Lisi Schoenbach's sustained analysis of the idea of habit provides a hugely impressive rethinking of the intellectual genealogy of modernism. Pragmatism's attention to everyday minutiae and social complexity informs Schoenbach's incisive re-readings. A wonderfully gripping and thought-provoking work of scholarship. --Michael Sheringham, University of Oxford<p><br> Clearly written and forcefully argued, Lisi Schoenbach's book contrasts the avant-garde's reliance on 'shock' with the pragmatists' attention to 'habit.' The result is a compelling revis

<br> Pragmatic Modernism is an impressive work of intellectual and literary history. It's clearly the product of deep reading and understanding and a real devotion to the ideas and thinkers it painstakingly explains and uses. It will strongly appeal to Americanists, modernists, and intellectual historians. --Ross Posnock, Columbia University<p><br> Establishing continuities between philosophical pragmatism and the work of modernist writers, Lisi Schoenbach's sustained analysis of the idea of habit provides a hugely impressive rethinking of the intellectual genealogy of modernism. Pragmatism's attention to everyday minutiae and social complexity informs Schoenbach's incisive re-readings. A wonderfully gripping and thought-provoking work of scholarship. --Michael Sheringham, University of Oxford<p><br> Clearly written and forcefully argued, Lisi Schoenbach's book contrasts the avant-garde's reliance on 'shock' with the pragmatists' attention to 'habit.' The result is a compelling revisionist account of modernism by way of splendid readings of Gertrude Stein and Henry James in company with the pragmatist trio of William James, John Dewey, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. --John McGowan, University of North Carolina<p><br> One of the most refreshing treatments of transatlantic modernism I've read in a long time, Lisi Schoenbach's Pragmatic Modernism highlights a crucial yet neglected strain of modernist thought and practice that stresses the dialectic between habit and rupture, the importance of institutionalization, and the value of recontextualization in contrast to immediate and total transformation. --George B. Hutchinson, Indiana University<p><br>

""In Pragmatic Modernism, Lisi Schoenbach takes up just such a new angle of vision as she adeptly juxtaposes one of the core assumptions among modernists--the valorization of disruption or discontinuity--with one of the pragmatists' key insights, the crucial and indispensible role played by habit in forming and reforming individual perspectives and cultural values.""--American Literature ""Pragmatic Modernism develops an alternate literary and intellectual genealogy of modernism, but in allowing her subject to dictate her method, Schoenbach also models a new set of critical habits...Schoenbach's recontextualizing vision offers fresh insight into modernist conceptions of psychic and social change, but this study's most important contribution is not limited to any one field."" --Criticism

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Lisi Schoenbach is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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