The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American Thought

Description: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America by Vernon Parrington This final volume of Vernon Louis Parringtons Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This final volume of Vernon Louis Parringtons Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals.Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy.Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parringtons interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parringtons life and explains the importance of this volume. Author Biography Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929) is credited as being one of the co-founders of the American Studies movement. In addition to this book, he is the author of The Connecticut Wits and Sinclair Lewis, Our Own Diogenes. Bruce Brown has done investigative reporting for the New York Times and foreign correspondence for Atlantic Monthly . In addition, he is the author of eight books, including Mountain in the Clouds and The History of the Corporation. Table of Contents 1: Changing America; 1: The American Scene; 2: The Culture of the Seventies; 3: Changing Theory; 4: The Beginnings of Criticism; 5: Disintegration and Reintegration; 6: The Skepticism of the House of Adams; 7: Victorian Realism; 2: The Old and the New: Storm Clouds; 8: The Plight of the Farmer; 9: The Democracy of the Age of Innocence; 10: Literature and the Middle Border *; 11: The Quest of Utopia; 12: The Darkening Skies of Letters Review -Who, after all, can deny the force of these three volumes, or the courage of this scholar who throughout the long years in his study in the University of Washington, grappled quietly and tenaciously with these three centuries of tangled thought? He has been not only the writer of a great book, but, presumably, will be the cause of great books from other men.- --Stanley T. Williams, The New England Quarterly -The death of Professor Parrington prevented the completion of the third volume of his notable trilogy upon the history of American thought. The plan for the entire volume had been worked out, however, and enough of the actual writing finished to give a fairly connected account from 1860 to 1900 . . . The present volume possesses all the virtues of the earlier ones . . . [A] path-breaking effort in the social history of American literature. His work is epoch marking if not epoch making. Students both of American literature and American history will long remain profoundly in his debt.- --A. M. Schlesinger, Modern Language Notes -This is volume three of the series Main Currents in American Thought, and undertakes to cover the period 1860-1920 . . . One sees clearly, in the course of this volume, that human creations are best explained by their relations with one another.- --A. Philip McMahon, Parnassus -[T]he truth of the matter is that this volume, in spite of its having been left for the greater part uncompleted, and in spite of the difficulties inherent in the materials out of which it was made, is so much the superior of those to which it is the sequel that it is more likely to prove an enduring monument to Professor Parringtons profound consideration and understanding of his countrys intellectual and cultural development than they.- --V. L. O. Chittick, American Literature Review on all three volumes of Main Currents in American Thought -Parringtons place in the history of American literary thought once seemed secure, and his monumental three-volume study was regarded as the definitive assessment of American letters. So dominant was Main Currents that the years from 1927 through the early 1950s might well be termed the age of Parrington . . . [N]o one has provided a representation of the history of American cultural production that was so exciting, so alive with the pulse of pressing social realities of contemporary life, so unabashedly partisan and dialectical, and so American as did Parrington.- --Russell J. Reising, American Quarterly"Who, after all, can deny the force of these three volumes, or the courage of this scholar who throughout the long years in his study in the University of Washington, grappled quietly and tenaciously with these three centuries of tangled thought? He has been not only the writer of a great book, but, presumably, will be the cause of great books from other men." --Stanley T. Williams, The New England Quarterly "The death of Professor Parrington prevented the completion of the third volume of his notable trilogy upon the history of American thought. The plan for the entire volume had been worked out, however, and enough of the actual writing finished to give a fairly connected account from 1860 to 1900 . . . The present volume possesses all the virtues of the earlier ones . . . [A] path-breaking effort in the social history of American literature. His work is epoch marking if not epoch making. Students both of American literature and American history will long remain profoundly in his debt." --A. M. Schlesinger, Modern Language Notes "This is volume three of the series Main Currents in American Thought, and undertakes to cover the period 1860-1920 . . . One sees clearly, in the course of this volume, that human creations are best explained by their relations with one another." --A. Philip McMahon, Parnassus "[T]he truth of the matter is that this volume, in spite of its having been left for the greater part uncompleted, and in spite of the difficulties inherent in the materials out of which it was made, is so much the superior of those to which it is the sequel that it is more likely to prove an enduring monument to Professor Parringtons profound consideration and understanding of his countrys intellectual and cultural development than they." --V. L. O. Chittick, American Literature Review on all three volumes of Main Currents in American Thought "Parringtons place in the history of American literary thought once seemed secure, and his monumental three-volume study was regarded as the definitive assessment of American letters. So dominant was Main Currents that the years from 1927 through the early 1950s might well be termed the age of Parrington . . . [N]o one has provided a representation of the history of American cultural production that was so exciting, so alive with the pulse of pressing social realities of contemporary life, so unabashedly partisan and dialectical, and so American as did Parrington." --Russell J. Reising, American Quarterly Review Text "Who, after all, can deny the force of these three volumes, or the courage of this scholar who throughout the long years in his study in the University of Washington, grappled quietly and tenaciously with these three centuries of tangled thought? He has been not only the writer of a great book, but, presumably, will be the cause of great books from other men." --Stanley T. Williams,The New England Quarterly "The death of Professor Parrington prevented the completion of the third volume of his notable trilogy upon the history of American thought. The plan for the entire volume had been worked out, however, and enough of the actual writing finished to give a fairly connected account from 1860 to 1900 . . . The present volume possesses all the virtues of the earlier ones . . . [A] path-breaking effort in the social history of American literature. His work is epoch marking if not epoch making. Students both of American literature and American history will long remain profoundly in his debt." --A. M. Schlesinger, Modern Language Notes "This is volume three of the series Main Currents in American Thought, and undertakes to cover the period 1860-1920 . . . One sees clearly, in the course of this volume, that human creations are best explained by their relations with one another." --A. Philip McMahon, Parnassus "[T]he truth of the matter is that this volume, in spite of its having been left for the greater part uncompleted, and in spite of the difficulties inherent in the materials out of which it was made, is so much the superior of those to which it is the sequel that it is more likely to prove an enduring monument to Professor Parringtons profound consideration and understanding of his countrys intellectual and cultural development than they." --V. L. O. Chittick, American Literature Review on all three volumes of Main Currents in American Thought: "Parringtons place in the history of American literary thought once seemed secure, and his monumental three-volume study was regarded as the definitive assessment of American letters. So dominant was Main Currents that the years from 1927 through the early 1950s might well be termed the age of Parrington . . . [N]o one has provided a representation of the history of American cultural production that was so exciting, so alive with the pulse of pressing social realities of contemporary life, so unabashedly partisan and dialectical, and so American as did Parrington." --Russell J. Reising, American Quarterly Details ISBN1412851645 Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 1412851645 ISBN-13 9781412851640 Format Paperback Short Title BEGINNINGS OF CRITICAL REALISM Media Book Series Main Currents in American Thought Illustrations black & white illustrations DEWEY 809.912 Subtitle Main Currents in American Thought Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2013-03-15 AU Release Date 2013-03-15 NZ Release Date 2013-03-15 US Release Date 2013-03-15 Pages 486 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Publication Date 2013-03-15 Author Vernon Parrington Alternative 9781138534421 Edited by Vernon Parrington Audience Professional & Vocational Imprint Routledge Place of Publication New York We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134472043;

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