The stammering century
By: by Gilbert Seldes ; introduction by Greil Marcus
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781590175804
Subjects: Social conditions; Intellectual life; Civilization; Social reformers
Description: "This book is not a record of the major events in American history during the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the cults and mania of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals, and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a background in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pentecostalists; the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors and the Fundamentalits; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and the orderly progress of [the United States of] America are the subject."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: New York : The John Day Co., 1928.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The stammering century; title: A stormer of heaven; title: Times of refreshing; title: Gasper River; title: The new Eden; title: And the old Adam; title: Winners of souls; title: A messianic murderer; title: The new soul; title: The perfect communist; title: Reformer and radical; title: An apostle of the newness; title: Sweetness and light; title: A saint; title: The winsome heart; title: A moral hijacker; title: Some women reformers; title: The coming of the prophet; title: The forerunners; title: The business of prophecy; title: The good news from Rochester; title: Northbound horses; title: The path to nothing; title: Christian science; title: The kingdom of God in Chicago; title: The complex of radicalism.