Joan Marie Johnson. Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967; George Robb. Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression.

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
Karen J. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Great Depression

Contracts and prophets

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-186
Author(s):  
Peter Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Great Depression

As its title suggests, this chapter employs a contrast of prophetic and contractual models for poets’ relationships with their readers. It offers close readings of money poems by Lawrence and Kathleen Raine to exemplify aspects of a prophetic orientation, and ones by Auden and Bernard Spencer to exemplify versions of a contractual model. In doing so, it explores, with particular reference to 1930s poetry in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, what may be involved in living within a society and an economic system, and how our compulsory and determined relationships with economic conditions may be differently challenged, shaped, and managed within the micro-economies of poetic forms.

The Early Twentieth Century, 1900–1945

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-159
Author(s):  
Gillis J. Harp
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The New Deal

Chapter 5 examines the first half of the twentieth century, focusing initially on the judicial and political critics of Progressivism. Although conservatives such as Justice David Brewer drew upon Christian elements in articulating their judicial theory, it was in a limited and circumscribed way. Similarly, political conservatives such as Elihu Root substituted a constitutional formalism and veneration of the Founders for the more theological approach of the Gilded Age dissenters. Meanwhile, leaders such as Presbyterian scholar John Gresham Machen helped draw evangelicals away from the older theocratic approach toward more libertarian views regarding politics and the state. Conservative responses to the Great Depression included Fundamentalists who viewed the New Deal apocalyptically and organizers of the Liberty League who warned of a coming totalitarianism. The modest connections established between Liberty Leaguers and evangelicals foreshadowed the deeper alliance that would profoundly shape the post–World War II conservative movement.

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