The American 1890s : A Cultural Reader /

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An anthology of articles from periodicals of the 1890s, chosen to reflect various aspects of American culture during the last fin-de-siecle.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-, Smith, Susan Harris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Prosa
Kultur
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Eighteen nineties.
Civilization.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Annees quatre-vingt-dix (Dix-neuvieme siecle) > Histoire > Sources.
Eighteen nineties > History > Sources.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1865-1918 > Sources.
United States > Civilization > 1865-1918 > Sources.
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Becoming cultured and culture as commodity. "The ideal of culture" / F.W. Gunsaulus
  • "Wealth" / Andrew Carnegie
  • Brief observations on the habit of reading. "The reading habit" ; "Courses of reading" ; "What Chicago people read" ; "A note on servants' libraries"
  • "The novel-reading habit"/ George Clarke
  • "The pelican" / Edith Wharton
  • "The economic theory of women's dress" / Thorstein Veblen
  • 2. The idea of types. "The modern American mood" / William Dean Howells
  • "The provincials," from a series "Sketches of American types" / Octave Thanet
  • "The conduct of life" from a series "The art of living" / Robert Grant
  • "The college graduate and public life" / Theodore Roosevelt
  • "The awakening of the Negro" / Booker T. Washington
  • 3. Labor. "The workers-- the West : among the revolutionaries" / Walter A. Wyckoff
  • "In the depths of a coal mine" / Stephen Crane
  • "A paying concern : a true story of American factory life" / Gertrude Roscoe
  • "The 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-girls clubs" / Clara Sidney Davidge.
  • 4. Social, ethnic, and racial strife. "Club life among outcasts" / Josiah Flynt
  • "The future of the red man" / Simon Pokagon
  • "Lynch law in the South" / Frederick Douglass
  • "A ghetto wedding" / Abraham Cahan
  • "The genesis of the gang" / Jacob A. Riis
  • "Step-brothers to dives" / Louise Betts Edwards
  • 5. Mental health & physical training. "The gospel of relaxation" / William James
  • "Fashion's slaves" / B.O. Flower
  • "Woman and the bicycle" / Marguerite Merington
  • "A fin de cycle incident" / Edna C. Jackson
  • "Physical education vs degeneracy" / H.W. Foster
  • "On being civilized too much" / Henry Charles Merwin.
  • 6. The promises of formal education. "A Negro schoolmaster in the new South" / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
  • "Modern college education" / John Brisben Walker
  • "The greatest need of college girls" / Annie Payson Call
  • "The school days of an Indian girl" / Zitkala-Să
  • "The march of progress" / Charles W. Chesnutt
  • "The ingrate" / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • "The genius of Bowlder Bluff" / Abbe Carter Goodloe
  • 7. The future & cultural change. "What a great city might be-- a lesson from the White City" / John Coleman Adams
  • "The problem of the West" / Frederick J. Turner
  • "The 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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