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HY/AS3240 Making America Modern

A/P Ian Gordon
AS1/05-40

Lecture 6
Cultural Modernism I: Realist Literature, The New Woman, and the Jazz Age
Outline

Key Content:

Modern and Anti-Modern America

Managing American Life

Reading:
Elizabeth Stevenson, Babbitts and Bohemians: from the Great War to the Great Depression (New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1998), Chapters 1, 5, and 9.

I. Introduction

II. Modernism and Literature

III. The Organizational Revolution

1. Functional Groups

2. Scientific Management

3. The "New Middle Class"

IV. Cultural Ambivalence

Charles Lindbergh

“Spirit of St. Louis”

V. Jazz Age Culture

1. Advertising

Marginal Differentiation
Walter Dill Scott, The Psychology of Advertising (1903)
disaccumulation

2. The New Woman and the Flapper

VI. Modernity and the Therapeutic Ethic

Sigmund Freud

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

VI. The Revolt Against Modernity

1. Nativism

Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race (1921)
National Origins Act of 1924

2. Prohibition

18th Amendment
Volstead Act (1919)

3. Counter-Evolution

Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan

VII. Conclusion

POWERPOINT


	A/P Ian Gordon	History	American Studies	NUS