| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
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History through literature: American voices, American themes |
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History through literature (Armonk, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Literature of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -- Sidelight : Modern and Modernism-Terms of Art -- Chapter 35, "Nunc Age," The Education of Henry Adams, 1918 / Henry Adams -- "Tom Parker's Strange Visitor," 1892 / Horatio Alger -- "The Book of the Grotesque," Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 / Sherwood Anderson -- Sidelight : Political Interpretations of The Wizard of Oz / Frank L. Baum -- Definitions from The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 / Ambrose Bierce -- Book I, Chapter Four, My Ántonia, 1918 / Willa Cather -- "Désirée's Baby," 1893 / Kate Chopin -- Chapter Five, Maggie : A Girl of the Streets, 1893 / Stephen Crane -- Chapter Three, "We Question of Fortune : Four-Fifty a Week," Sister Carrie (excerpt), 1900 / Theodore Dreiser -- Chapter One, "Of our spiritual strivings," The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Selected Poems, 1896 / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Chapter 18, Criticism and Fiction (excerpt), 1891 / William Dean Howells -- Chapter 12, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpt), 1884 / Huckleberry Finn -- Chapter One, The American (excerpt), 1877 / Henry James -- Chapter Two, "The Law of Club and Fang," The Call of the Wild, 1903 / Jack London -- Chapter Ten, "Cutting to Kill," The History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. 2 (excerpt), 1904 / Muckraking -- Naturalism -- Realism -- Chapters One and Two, How the Other Half Lives (excerpts), 1890 / Jacob Riis -- Selected Poems, 1897-1921 / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Chapter Nine, The Jungle (excerpt), 1906 / Upton Sinclair -- "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (excerpt), 1893 / Frederick Jackson Turner -- "The War Prayer," 1905 / Mark Twain -- Chapter One, The Age of Innocence, 1920 / Edith Wharton |
| Summary |
This text provides analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the Gilded Age and early twentieth century. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Intellectual life
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Literature and history
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United States -- History -- 1865-1921 -- Sources
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Sources
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317456629 |
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1317456629 |
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9781317456612 |
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1317456610 |
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9781315699691 |
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1315699699 |
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9781317456605 |
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1317456602 |
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9780765683427 |
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0765683423 |
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9780765683267 |
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0765683261 |
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