Title: The intellectual versus the city : from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright /
Authors: White, Morton, 1917-; White, Lucia,; White, Lucia,
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Cities and towns United States.
Contents: Opening theme -- The Irenic age: Franklin, Crevecoeur, and Jefferson -- Metaphysics against the city: the age of Emerson -- Bad dreams of the city: Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe -- The displaced patrician: Henry Adams -- The visiting mind: Henry James -- The ambivalent urbanite: William Dean Howells -- Disappointment in New York: Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser -- Pragmatism and social work: William James and Jane Addams -- The plea for community: Robert Park and John Dewey -- Provincialism and alienation: an aside on Josiah Royce and George Santayana -- Architecture against the city: Frank Lloyd Wright -- The legacy of fear -- The outlines of a tradition -- Romanticism is not enough -- Ideology, prejudice, and reasonable criticism.