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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... thought—the broad drift of major ideas—and not with vagrant currents or casual' variations. In particular I have been repeatedly taken to task for a seeming slight put upon certain of our artists, and it has been inferred that I ...
Main Currents in American Thought Vernon Parrington. But the spirit awakened by the earlier democratic enthusiasm could not be kept in political strait—jackets. The Jacksonian revolution overfiowed all narrow party dikes, expressing ...
... thought emerged to 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 ...
Main Currents in American Thought Vernon Parrington. of salt pork and whisky or to later machine labor, and aristocracies are still seen to be economic. And aristocratic albinos may well breed mobs and morons. Jefferson was not as ...
Main Currents in American Thought Vernon Parrington. xxxii INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION boosted by supporting backs, for in those days, football offenses relied as much on pushing from behind as blocking in front. Midway ...
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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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