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The New Era

- American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

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In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as ΓÇ£modern,ΓÇ¥ which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went beforeΓÇöa 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 debatesΓÇöover womenΓÇÖs roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and valuesΓÇöthat would define American public life for fifty years.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9780742549265
  • Format:
  • Häftad
  • Sidor:
  • 282
  • Utgiven:
  • 11 Juli 2016
  • Mått:
  • 151x229x21 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 422 g.
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Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
Förväntad leverans: 19 Juni 2024

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In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as ΓÇ£modern,ΓÇ¥ which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went beforeΓÇöa 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 debatesΓÇöover womenΓÇÖs roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and valuesΓÇöthat would define American public life for fifty years.

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