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The American 1890s: a cultural reader
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
2000
Language
English
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From the Book
Timeline of America at Century's End
1. Becoming Cultured and Culture as Commodity
Ideal of Culture / F. W. Gunsaulus
Wealth / Andrew Carnegie
Reading Habit / Critic
Courses of Reading / Critic
What Chicago People Read / Critic
Note on Servants' Libraries / Critic
Novel-Reading Habit / George Clarke
Pelican / Edith Wharton
Economic Theory of Women's Dress / Thorstein Veblen
2. Idea of Types
Modern American Mood / William Dean Howells
Provincials, from a series, Sketches of American Types / Octave Thanet
Conduct of Life, from a series, The Art of Living / Robert Grant
Talma Gordon / Pauline E. Hopkins
College Graduate and Public Life / Theodore Roosevelt
Awakening of the Negro / Booker T. Washington
Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future / Susan B. Anthony
3. Labor
Workers - The West: Among the Revolutionaries / Walter A. Wyckoff
In the Depths of a Coal Mine / Stephen Crane
Paying Concern: A True Story of American Factory Life / Gertrude Roscoe
Night Run of the 'Overland': A Story of Domestic Life Among the Railroad People / Elmore Elliott Peake
Women and Girls in Sweat-Shops / Florence Kelley
Working-Girl's Clubs / Clara Sidney Davidge
4. Social, Ethnic, and Racial Strife
Club Life Among Outcasts / Josiah Flynt
Future of the Red Man / Simon Pokagon
Lynch Law in the South / Frederick Douglass
Ghetto Wedding / Abraham Cahan
Genesis of the Gang / Jacob A. Riis
Step-Brothers to Dives / Louise Betts Edwards
5. Mental Health & Physical Training
Gospel of Relaxation / William James
Fashion's Slaves / B. O. Flower
Woman and the Bicycle / Marguerite Merington
Fin de Cycle Incident / Edna C. Jackson
Physical Education vs. Degeneracy / H. W. Foster
On Being Civilized Too Much / Henry Charles Merwin
6. Promises of Formal Education
Negro Schoolmaster in the New South / W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
Modern College Education / John Brisben Walker
Greatest Need of College Girls / Annie Payson Call
School Days of an Indian Girl / Zitkala-Sa
March of Progress / Charles W. Chesnutt
Ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Genius of Bowlder Bluff / Abbe Carter Goodloe
7. Future & Cultural Change
What a Great City Might Be - A Lesson from the White City / John Coleman Adams
Problem of the West / Frederick J. Turner
Divorce of Man from Nature / Anna R. Weeks
Susan's Escort / Edward Everett Hale
Twenty-Four: Four / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Within an Ace of the End of the World / Robert Barr.
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9780822324768
9780822325123
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