The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American ThoughtVernon Parrington Routledge, 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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... 19th century--History and criticism. 2. Realism in literature. I. Title. PS217.R4P37 2013 809'.912--dc23 2012028686 ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-5164-0 (pbk) VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON The sudden death of Professor Vernon Louis Copyright Page.
... critics Parrington considered Randolph Bourne and Charles A. Beard 8 the most important. Another set turned 5 See Addenda for brief notes on these writers. 6 See Addenda for magazine article on Cabell. 7 “ A Chapter in American ...
... criticism and reform propaganda to become great craftsmen, yet they were to Parrington important writers, because they were in touch with deep currents of American thought. Still a third set of writers turned to a realistic technique ...
... criticism of a dehumanized economics, and such criticism proceeds from an implicit liberalism. The attack on the middle class is seen best in Zona Gale,13 Evelyn Scott, and particularly in Sinclair Lewis,14 whom Parrington rated the ...
... criticize it was reckoned disloyal. The long process of interpretation had remained in the hands of the lawyers and had ... criticism was historical rather than legalistic. It was concerned primarily with origins—and it must take into ...