New Era e-bog
302,96 DKK
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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 int...
E-bog
302,96 DKK
Udgivet
22 december 2011
Længde
282 sider
Genrer
1KBB
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781442215405
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.