The stammering century
"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;…
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- Full title :The stammering century / by Gilbert Seldes ; introduction by Greil Marcus.
Summary
"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.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New York Review Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
Notes
Originally published: New York : The John Day Co., 1928.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxx, 414 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781590175804, 1590175808, 9781590175804, 1590175808
- oclc:ocn791492686
- LC Classification:E169.1
- Dewey Decimal:973
Table of Contents
The stammering century -- A stormer of heaven -- Times of refreshing -- Gasper River -- The new Eden -- And the old Adam -- Winners of souls -- A messianic murderer -- The new soul -- The perfect communist -- Reformer and radical -- An apostle of the newness -- Sweetness and light -- A saint -- The winsome heart -- A moral hijacker -- Some women reformers -- The coming of the prophet -- The forerunners -- The business of prophecy -- The good news from Rochester -- Northbound horses -- The path to nothing -- Christian science -- The kingdom of God in Chicago -- The complex of radicalism.
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