No place of grace

Lears, T. J. Jackson

No place of grace

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: No place of grace : antimodernism and the transformation of American culture, 1880 - 1920

Author:: Lears, T. J. Jackson

Publisher:: Pantheon Books

Place of publication:: New York

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Subject:: Kulturpessimismus; Kulturwandel

Shelfmark:: E/L438

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

Contents PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION XI PREFACE XV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. ROOTS OF ANTIMODERNISM: THE CRISIS OF CULTURAL AUTHORITY DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY 3 A Patlern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America 7 A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter 26 Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness 32 A Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View 47 . 2. THE FIGURE OF THE ARTISAN: ARTS AND CRAFTS IDEOLOGY 59 Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions 66 Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform 74 Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, The Market, and The Process of Rationalization ~~ 83 The Fate of the Craft Ideal g1 83. THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT: MODERN COMMERCIAL SOCIETY AND THE MARTIAL IDEAL 97 From Domestic Realism to “Real Life” 104 Class. Race. and the Worship of Force 107 The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood 117 } The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney. Norris, Adams 12

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