New Era (eBook)

American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

Paul V. Murphy (Autor)

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2011
282 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1540-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The New Era examines American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of a generation of American intellectuals who became tribunes of openness, experimentation, and tolerance. The book tracks the emergence of a new set of arguments and debates—over women’s roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and values—that would define American public life for the next fifty years.

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In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as ';modern,' which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went beforea new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity.The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American intellectuals determined to move beyond an older role as gatekeepers of cultural respectability and become tribunes of openness, experimentation, and tolerance instead. Recognizing the gap between themselves and the mainstream public, younger critics alternated between expressions of disgust at American conformity and optimistic pronouncements of cultural reconstruction. The book tracks the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals who made culture the essential terrain of social and political action and who framed a new set of arguments and debatesover women's roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and valuesthat would define American public life for fifty years.

Autor

Paul V. Murphy is associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University.

Inhalt

Foreword by Howard Brick and Lewis Perry, Series EditorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The New EraChapter 1: The Gay TableChapter 2: Navigating Mass SocietyChapter 3: The BridgeChapter 4: Mulatto AmericaChapter 5: The Eclipsed PublicChapter 6: The Inner CheckChronologyNotesBibliographical EssayIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: American Thought and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1540-2 / 1442215402
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1540-5 / 9781442215405