The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1992
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- Title
- The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana (Cultural Studies of the United States)
- Author
- Dawidoff, Robert
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807820172
- ISBN 13
- 9780807820179
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Linked together by common Harvard, Cambridge, and New England connections, and by an upper-class, Brahmin background, each of these three writers, Dawidoff argues, was at once self-critical and contemptuous of cultural democracy -- especially its indifference to them and what they represented. But their claims to detached observation of democratic culture must be viewed skeptically, Dawidoff warns, and borrowed with caution.
An important contribution of the book is its integration of gay issues into American intellectual history. Viewing James's and Santayana's attitudes toward their homosexuality as affecting their views of American society, Dawidoff examines this significant and overlooked element in the American intellectual and cultural mix. Dawidoff also includes powerful new readings of Adams's Democracy and James's The Ambassadors and discusses Santayana's Americanist essays.
In his foreward, Alan Trachtenberg notes the ""taboo"" that seems to have fallen over the word democracy. ""It is rarely encountered anymore in humanistic studies,"" he says, "" snubbed in favor of gender, class, race, region."" This trend, he says, may be in part due to an unease about studying the culture in which we participate because the posture of the cutural critic implies a certain detachment. ""The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage returns the question of democracy to centerstage,"" he concludes, ""not as political theory alone but as cultural and personal experience.""
Originally published in 1992.
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