| Description |
xx, 375 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for No place of grace : antimodernism and the transformation of American culture, 1880-1920 / T.J. Jackson Lears. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority During the Late Nineteenth Century -- A Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America -- A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Sphere -- Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness -- A Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View -- 2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts Ideology -- Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions -- Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform -- Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, The Market, and the Process of Rationalization -- The Fate of the Craft Ideal -- 3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commercial Society and the Martial Ideal -- From Domestic Realism to "Real Life" -- Class, Race, and the Worship of Force -- The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood -- The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams -- 4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World -- The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race -- Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust -- Medieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and Profane -- The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest -- 5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Consciousness -- The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal Regeneration -- Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma -- American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Protest -- The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder -- 6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence -- The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions -- The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, Lodge -- William Sturgis Bigelow -- Percival Lowell -- George Cabot Lodge -- Aesthetic Catholicism and "Feminine" Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks -- Charles Eliot Norton -- G. Stanley Hall -- Van Wyck Brooks -- 7. From Filial Loyalty to Religious Protest: Henry Adams -- Early Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-Cart -- Husband, Historian, Novelist: Adams's Crisis of Generativity -- The Antimodern Quest: From Niagara to the Virgin -- Between Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, The Dynamo, and the Angelic Doctor -- Between Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern Modernist -- Epilogue -- Biographical Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: United States Civilization 1865-1918, United States Intellectual life 1865-1918 |
| Analysis |
Culture History |
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United States |
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Culture History |
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United States |
| Notes |
Previously published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1981 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-364) and index |
| Notes |
Previously published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1981 |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139940
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366
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| LC no. |
93039767 |
| ISBN |
0226469700 paperback alkaline paper |
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