The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American ThoughtRoutledge, 29. 9. 2017 - 484 strán (strany) This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy. Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parrington's interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume. |
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... question to which the gods as yet have given no answer. Yet it is not without hope that intelligent America is in revolt. The artist is in revolt, the intellectual is in revolt, the conscience of America is in revolt. 0 Q o o o . o It ...
... question as to the democratic spirit of the Constitution was raised, no doubts as to its sufiiciency as a fundamental democratic law were suggested. The class divisions that presided at its making were ignored, and the aristocratic ...
... question the ardent romanticisms of an earlier age, and bring under doubt the excellence of a social order created by the Industrial Revolution. The field to be traversed is thus predetermined. The interpreta— tion of our literature ...
... questions. Thus Fisher Ames (“The essence and almost quintessence ofgood government is to protect property and its rights”) is set against james Fenimore Cooper (“A government founded on the representation of property is radically ...
... question a heritage of the Civil War— a debtor class and an appreciating standard of value . . 266 TV. Greenbackism and Peter Cooper . . . . . . . . . 276 v. [Bi-metallism: A heritage of jacksonian democracy: Ignatius Donnelly, “Coin ...
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Changes in traditional economies after the Civil War The rise | 3 |
THE AMERICAN SCENE | 33 |
43 | 169 |
48 | 176 |
PART II | 185 |
The flower of | 212 |
In the eighties realism begins to excite | 237 |
PART I | 259 |
THE QUEsT 0F UTOPIA | 301 |
on the gay horizon of American optimism Changes | 316 |
ADDENDA | 323 |
PART III | 328 |
19171924 | 373 |
Some War Books | 384 |
The Short Story | 397 |
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