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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"genteel tradition"”.
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Goethe and the genteel tradition in America
… of a representative group of writers in the genteel tradition. This term, coined by Santayana and widely adopted, is used here to characterize the attitude toward culture prevailing in America from 1865 to 1912. It is marked by a failure to reflect the national background, by moral timidity, …
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Ingenious Devices: Engineering Fictions and American Technophilia, 1900--1940
… and readers who identified with the eroding genteel tradition in American letters often eschewed science and technology as threats to their cultural authority. In response, they crafted escapist fantasies which often identified intellectual writers with research scientists. Members of the …
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St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum
… popular among those associated with the American genteel tradition. By choosing certain styles for illustration and page layouts, and by choosing to feature certain stylistic periods in the history of art, the editors of St. Nicholas attempted to train its readers in the acceptable taste …
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Birth of the First: Authenticity and the Collecting of Modern First Editions, 1890-1930
… attitudes toward books, the history of the genteel tradition, and economic motivations of the book trade. Yet even as this constellation of factors points to the complex reasons for the trend’s development, a common preoccupation with authenticity runs throughout period’s literature on …
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American Images of Childhood in an Age of Educational and Social Reform, 1870-1915
… produced in this period. Paintings of the “Genteel Tradition” portrayed pampered children, and their photographic analogue, the “Photo-Secessionists,” attempted to establish a highly artificial rhetoric of the “child-angel.” Often, these discreet artists ironically unmasked the psychological …
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Commerce, little magazines and modernity: New York, 1915-1922
This thesis examines the theme of commerce in four magazines of literature and the arts, all published in New York between 1915 and 1922. The magazines are The Seven Arts (1916-1917), 291 (1915-1916), The Soil (1916-1917), and The Pagan (1916-1922). The division between art and commerce is …