The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana
(Part of the Cultural Studies of the United States Series and Cultural Studies of the United States Series)
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Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as "Tocquevillian." In the work of three towering American literary figures - Henry Adams, Henry James, and George Santayana -- Dawidoff explores fully this distancing and uneasy response to democratic culture. Linked together...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807820172
ISBN13:9780807820179
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
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