1st Edition
The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America Main Currents in American Thought
Edited By Vernon Parrington
Copyright 2013
486 Pages
by
Routledge
486 Pages
by
Routledge
484 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1: Changing America; 1: The American Scene; 2: The Culture of the Seventies; 3: Changing Theory; 4: The Beginnings of Criticism; 5: Disintegration and Reintegration; 6: The Skepticism of the House of Adams; 7: Victorian Realism; 2: The Old and the New: Storm Clouds; 8: The Plight of the Farmer; 9: The Democracy of the Age of Innocence; 10: Literature and the Middle Border *; 11: The Quest of Utopia; 12: The Darkening Skies of Letters
Biography
Vernon Parrington
