No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920

Name: No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
Author: T. J. Jackson Lears
ISBN: 9780226794440

T. J. Jackson Lears

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No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920

T. J. Jackson Lears

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No Place of Grace is a study of responses to the culture of corporate capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the development of modern consumer society through the embrace of antimodernism, the effort among many middle and upper class Americans to recapture feelings of authenticity, vigor, depth, and connection. Rather than offer true resistance to the increasing corporate bureaucratization of the time, however, antimodernism helped accommodate Americans to the new order—it was therapeutic rather than oppositional, a forerunner to today's self-help culture. And yet antimodernism contributed a new dynamic as well, "an eloquent edge of protest," as Lears puts it, which is evident even today in anticonsumerism, sustainable living, and other practices.

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