United States--Intellectual life--1865-1918
Aesthetic Catholicism and "Feminine" Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks. Charles Eliot Norton. G. Stanley Hall. Van Wyck Brooks -- 7. From Filial Loyalty to Religious Protest: Henry Adams. Early Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-Cart. Husband, Historian, Novelist: Adams's Crisis of Generativity. The Antimodern Quest: From Niagara to the Virgin. Between Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, The Dynamo, and the Angelic Doctor. Between Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern Modernist.
The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood. The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams -- 4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World. The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race. Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust. Medieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and Profane. The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest -- 5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Consciousness. The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal Regeneration. Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma. American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Protest. The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder -- 6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence. The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions. The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, Lodge. William Sturgis Bigelow. Percival Lowell. George Cabot Lodge.
1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority During the Late Nineteenth Century. A Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America. A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter. Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness. A Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View -- 2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts Ideology. Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions. Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform. Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, The Market, and the Process of Rationalization. The Fate of the Craft Ideal -- 3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commerical Society and the Martial Ideal. From Domestic Realism to "Real Life" Class, Race, and the Worship of Force.