No Place of Grace

Preface to the Paperback Edition
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 Sphere
Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness
A 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
The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions
The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, Lodge
William Sturgis Bigelow
Percival Lowell
George Cabot Lodge
Aesthetic Catholicism and "Feminine" Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks
Charles Eliot Norton
G. Stanley Hall
Van Wyck Brooks
7. From Filial Loyalty to Religious Protest: Henry Adams
Early Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-Cart
Husband, Historian, Novelist: Adams's Crisis of Generativity
The Antimodern Quest: From Niagara to the Virgin
Between Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, The Dynamo, and the Angelic Doctor
Between Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern Modernist
Epilogue
Biographical Appendix
Notes
Index