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Book SynopsisA new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Trade Review"Auspicious radical history: cogently argued, crisply written, and alive with intellectual passion."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "This is a powerful and provocative reinterpretation. . . of the dominant Anglo-American culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a book that all scholars in the field will have to take into account."-- "American Historical Review"
Table of ContentsForeword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Preface (1994) 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 Specter Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness 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
