SOURCE: “Exit Religion,” in A Genteel Endeavor: American Culture and Politics in the Gilded Age, Stanford University Press, 1971, pp. 167-85.
In the following essay, Tomsich discusses the “genteel” authors of the Gilded Age, whose religious faith faded with the influence of evolutionary theory and gave way to a sometimes fatalistic moralism.
This is a free excerpt of 51 words. There are 7,536 words (approx.
25 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our The Gilded Age: Critical Essay by John Tomsich Access Pass.
