The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American ThoughtTransaction Publishers, 31. 5. 2013 - 484 strán (strany) This final volume of Vernon Louis Parringtonâ 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. Parringtonâ 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 Parringtonâ s life and explains the importance of this volume. |
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... concern over the darkening future of American civilization. Edwin Markham, his humanitarian sympathies aroused, penned an indictment of wage exploitation in his “The Man with the Hoe” that caused no little concern in its day and spurred ...
... concern over the darkening future of American civilization. Edwin Markham, his humanitarian sympathies aroused, penned an indictment of wage exploitation in his “The Man with the Hoe” that caused no little concern in its day and spurred ...
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... concern for human rights, that was the noble bequest of our fathers who had drunk of the waters of French romantic ... concerned in the present study with the total pattern of American thought—the broad drift of major ideas-and not with ...
... concern for human rights, that was the noble bequest of our fathers who had drunk of the waters of French romantic ... concerned in the present study with the total pattern of American thought—the broad drift of major ideas-and not with ...
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... than legalistic. It was concerned primarily with origins—and it must take into account the political theories and class interests of the eighteenth— century gentlemen who framed the document. It refused to look INTRODUCTION xxv.
... than legalistic. It was concerned primarily with origins—and it must take into account the political theories and class interests of the eighteenth— century gentlemen who framed the document. It refused to look INTRODUCTION xxv.
Strana xxvi
... concerns itself primarily with the spirit of realism that under the constrictions of industrialism and with the spread of scientific modes of thought emerged to question the ardent romanticisms of an earlier age, and bring under doubt ...
... concerns itself primarily with the spirit of realism that under the constrictions of industrialism and with the spread of scientific modes of thought emerged to question the ardent romanticisms of an earlier age, and bring under doubt ...
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... concerns when they were war- ranted. He was one of the first influential twentieth century critics to champion both Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, and his own writing immediately reveals a distinctive aesthetic sense. Parrington was ...
... concerns when they were war- ranted. He was one of the first influential twentieth century critics to champion both Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, and his own writing immediately reveals a distinctive aesthetic sense. Parrington was ...
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THE GILDED AGE | 7 |
NEW PATTERNS OF THOUGHT | 189 |
THE OLD AND THE NEW | 255 |
THE MIDDLE BORDER RISES | 259 |
PROLETARIAN HOPES | 301 |
ADDENDA | 323 |
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