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The American 1890s a cultural reader
Title
The American 1890s [electronic resource] : a cultural reader / Susan Harris Smith & Melanie Dawson, editors.
ISBN
9780822380856
0822380854
0822324768 (acid-free paper)
9780822324768 (acid-free paper)
0822325128 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822325123 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Physical Description
xv, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-463) and index.
Contents
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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