No Place of Grace

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Preface (1983) -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority During the Late Nineteenth Century -- A Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America -- A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter -- Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness -- Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View -- 2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts Ideology -- Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions -- Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform -- Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, the Market, and the Process of Rationalization -- The Fate of the Craft Ideal -- 3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commercial Society and the Martial Ideal -- From Domestic Realism to "Real Life" -- Class, Race, and the Worship of Force -- The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood -- The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams -- 4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World -- The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race -- Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust -- Medieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and Profane -- The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest -- 5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Consciousness -- The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal Regeneration -- Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma -- American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Protest -- The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder -- 6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence.