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No Place of Grace
T.J. Jackson Lears
其他書名
Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
出版University of Chicago Press, 2021-08-26
主題History / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Modern / 19th Century
ISBN022679458X9780226794587
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TLU2EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.
 
First published in 1981, T. J. Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace is a landmark book in American studies and American history, acclaimed for both its rigorous research and the deft fluidity of its prose. A study of responses to the emergent culture of corporate capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century, No Place of Grace charts the development of contemporary consumer society through the embrace of antimodernism—the effort among middle- and upper-class Americans to recapture feelings of authentic experience. Rather than offer true resistance to the increasingly corporatized bureaucracy of the time, however, antimodernism helped accommodate Americans to the new order—it was therapeutic rather than oppositional, a striking forerunner to today’s self-help culture. And yet antimodernism contributed a new dynamic as well, “an eloquent edge of protest,” as Lears puts it, which is evident even today in anticonsumerism, sustainable living, and other practices. This new edition, with a lively and discerning foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, celebrates the fortieth anniversary of this singular work of history.