| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xx, 375 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Roots of antimodernism: the crisis of cultural authority during the late nineteenth century: Pattern of evasive banality: official modern culture in industrial America -- Social crisis: the republican tradition and the radical specter -- Unreal city: social science, secularization, and the emergence of weightlessness -- Psychic crisis: neurasthenia and the emergence of a therapeutic world view -- 2. 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 -- Fate of the craft ideal -- 3. Destructive element: modern commercial society and the martial ideal: From domestic realism to "real life" -- Class, race, and the worship of force -- Psychological uses of the martial ideal: the cult of experience and the quest for authentic selfhood -- Psychological uses of the martial ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams -- 4. morning of belief: medieval mentalities in a modern world: image of childhood and the childhood of the race -- Medieval sincerity: genteel and robust -- Medieval vitality: the erotic union of sacred and profane -- medieval unconscious: therapy and protest -- 5. religion of beauty: Catholic forms and American consciousness: rise of Catholic taste: cultural authority and personal regeneration -- Art, ritual, and belief: the Protestant dilemma -- American Anglo-Catholicism: legitimation and protest -- poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder -- 6. From patriarchy to nirvana: patterns of ambivalence: problem of Victorian ambivalence: sources and solutions -- 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: Adam's crisis of generativity -- 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 modernis. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1865-1918 |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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EE.UU. -- Vida intelectual. |
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États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 1865-1918. |
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États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle. |
| ISBN |
0394508165 : $18.50 |
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9780394508160 |
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