num_pages: 400
description: Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources (sermons, diaries, letters) as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences, and the search for cultural self-sufficiency through the Arts and Crafts movement. Lears argues that their antimodern impulse, more pervasive than historians have supposed, was not "simple escapism," but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture.
language: English
title: No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
titlecomplete: No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
genres: The United States Of America, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, American History, Cultural Studies, 19th Century, 20th Century, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 199
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: University of Chicago Press