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.
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ISBN | 9780226469706 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | The University of Chicago Press |
Jahr | 19940615 |
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