Enchanted But Enchained: Harriet Monroe, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Grand Canyon

While literary modernism is often understood as an urban and cosmopolitan movement, many prominent modernist writers and tastemakers turned to American nature as a resource of aesthetic innovation. This article examines Harriet Monroe’s and W. E. B. Du Bois’s writing about Grand Canyon National Park with particular emphasis on the idea of “regeneration” through nature, as well as the racial and colonial discourses that emerged within such an idea.