The American 1890s

A Cultural Reader
Herausgeber: Smith, Susan Harris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This excellent sourcebook covers a range of topics, from education to mental health, from labor and the city to reading and culture. A thorough and well-conceived collection."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325123
• ISBN-10: 0822325128
• Artikelnr.: 21269921

Autorenporträt

Susan Harris Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of American Drama: The Bastard Art and Masks in Modern Drama. Melanie Dawson is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

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