Stammering Century Seldes Gilbert
Stammering Century Seldes Gilbert Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:This book is not a record of the major events in American history during the nineteenth century. Its…
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Stammering Century Seldes Gilbert
Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:This book is not a record of the major events in American history during the nineteenth century. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals, and mountebanks. It is concerned with minor movements, with the cults and manias of that period.
Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to the orderly progress of America Its intention is to connect these secondary movements and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a background in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pentecostalists; the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors and the Fundamentalists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and possibly the saints.