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No Place of Grace Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920

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ISBN-10: 0226469700

ISBN-13: 9780226469706

Edition: 1994

Authors: T. J. Jackson Lears

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T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources -- sermons, diaries, letters -- as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences, and the search for cultural self-sufficiency through the Arts and Crafts movement. Lears argues that their antimodern impulse, more pervasive than historians have supposed, was not "simple escapism," but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture. "It's an understatement to call No Place of Grace a brilliant book. . . . It's the first clear sign I've seen that my generation, after…    
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Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
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
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
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
The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Conscious ness
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
From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence
The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions
The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell
Bigelow Percival Lowell
Lodge Aesthetic Catholicism and "Feminine" Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks
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