| Description |
xiii, 561 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Riverside editions, A125 |
| Contents |
Adam's diary / Mark Twain -- The fable of the good fairy with the lorgnette, and why she got it good / George Ade -- The "fast" girl / Frank Norris -- Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- A respectable woman / Kate Chopin -- The problem of the West / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Dying fires / Frank Norris -- In cowboy land / Theodore Roosevelt -- At Cheyenne / Eugene Field -- Specimen Jones / Owen Wister -- A man and some others / Stephen Crane -- The white silence / Jack London -- The manly virtues and practical politics / Theodore Roosevelt -- The frontier gone at last / Frank Norris -- On the Anglo-Saxon / Finley Peter Dunne -- How the other half lives / Jacob Riis -- An east-side ramble / William Dean Howells -- A pilgrimage and a vision / Benjamin Orange Flower -- An experiment in misery / Stephen Crane -- A hotel bedroom / Frank Norris -- The men in the storm / Stephen Crane -- Curious shifts of the poor / Theodore Dreiser -- Homestead and its perilous trades / Hamlin Garland -- In the depths of a coal mine / Stephen Crane -- A day-laborer at West Point / Walter A. Wyckoff -- Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland -- The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham |
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In his steps / Charles M. Sheldon -- Populist party platform -- Trusts / James B. Weaver -- Start of the Commonweal / Henry Vincent -- Cross of gold speech / William Jennings Bryan -- The strikers / Edward Bellamy -- On a populist convention / Finley Peter Dunne -- The absurd effort to make the world over / William Graham Sumner -- Unguarded gates / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- A traveler from Altruria / William Dean Howells -- The fable of the copper and the jovial undergrads / George Ade -- Society as I have found it / Ward McAllister -- Society / John Jay Chapman -- The old swimmin'-hole / James Whitcomb Riley -- Vagabondia / Richard Hovey -- November 16, 1890 / Henry Adams to John Hay -- Bon-odori / Lafcadio Hearn -- Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres / Henry Adams -- The death of Rodriguez / Richard Harding Davis -- Raising the regiment / Theodore Roosevelt -- War memories / Stephen Crane -- The fable of the unintentional heroes of Centreville / George Ade -- A message to Garcia / Elbert Hubbard -- The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Expansion / Finley Peter Dunne -- Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League -- On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughn Moody -- The real "white man's burden" / Ernest Crosby --One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce -- Poor Joanna / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Nigger Jeff / Theodore Dreiser |
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The doctrine of evolution : its scope and purport / John Fiske -- Preface, the evolution of Christianity / Lyman Abbott -- God and nature / John Burroughs -- Is life worth living? / William James -- Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson --The blue battalions / Stephen Crane -- Mr. Howell's latest novels / Hamlin Garland -- Editor's study / William Dean Howells -- Sharps and flats / Eugene Field -- Howells discussed at Avon-by-the-Sea / Stephen Crane -- Fears realists must wait / Stephen Crane -- August 17, 1896 / Stephen Crane to William Dean Howells -- Maggie : an appreciation / William Dean Howells -- July 29, 1900 / William Dean Howells to Cora Crane -- A case in point / William Dean Howells -- The real Howells / Theordore Dreiser -- Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells -- Productive conditions of American literature / Hamlin Garland -- A youth in apparel that glittered / Stephen Crane -- The ethics of literary art / Maurice Thompson -- The interpretation of idealism / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- Preface, summer in Arcady / James Lane Allen -- Many red devils ran from my heart / Stephen Crane -- Zola as a romantic writer / Frank Norris -- Zola / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Realism in literature and art / Clarence Darrow |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 560-561 |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139940
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366
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| Author |
Pizer, Donald.
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| LC no. |
76177497 |
| ISBN |
0395134935 |
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