No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920Pantheon Books, 1981 - 375 páginas 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 marching through the '60s and jogging through the '70s might be pausing to examine what we've learned, and to teach it."--Walter Kendrick, Village Voice "One can justly make the claim that No Place of Grace restores and reinterprets a crucial part of American history. Lears's method is impeccable."--Ann Douglas, The Nation |
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... felt that the introspective mean- dering of Oscar Wilde , Joris Karl Huysmans , and other Decadents was an extreme case of a more general malady infecting both Europe and Amer- ica . 104 To be sure , few Wildean poseurs appeared in the ...
... felt that the introspective mean- dering of Oscar Wilde , Joris Karl Huysmans , and other Decadents was an extreme case of a more general malady infecting both Europe and Amer- ica . 104 To be sure , few Wildean poseurs appeared in the ...
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... felt ambivalent toward republican tradi- tion and constrained by dominant values . Educated , articulate , they were the " point men " of modernization — the most polished products of a mod- ern culture coming into its maturity . Yet ...
... felt ambivalent toward republican tradi- tion and constrained by dominant values . Educated , articulate , they were the " point men " of modernization — the most polished products of a mod- ern culture coming into its maturity . Yet ...
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... felt drugged by an eerie sense of timelessness there ; history and personal identity seemed to dissolve in the " all " of sea and sky . To Bigelow and Lodge , the island retreat became a this - worldly embodiment of Nirvana . For ...
... felt drugged by an eerie sense of timelessness there ; history and personal identity seemed to dissolve in the " all " of sea and sky . To Bigelow and Lodge , the island retreat became a this - worldly embodiment of Nirvana . For ...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 1 |
Official Modern Culture in Industrial | 7 |
The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter | 26 |
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