An American Studies Series: From Self to Society, 1919-1941

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IndexedCrunden's scholarly method focused on shared climates of creativity revealed through group biographies of individuals active in diverse intellectual and cultural practices at a particular historical moment. He first experimented with this approach in From Self to Society, 1919-1941 (1972). That work traced changing interpretations of the relationship between the individual and society from the Progressives' feelings of common identity,