Provides insights and 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.
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Chapter 1 Literature of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Chapter 2 Adams, Henry(1838'"1918); Chapter 3 Alger, Horatio(1832'"1899); Chapter 4 Anderson, Sherwood(1876'"1941); Chapter 5 Baum, L. Frank(1856'"1919); Chapter 6 Bierce, Ambrose(1842'"1914?); Chapter 7 Cather, Willa(1873'"1947); Chapter 8 Chopin, Kate(1851'"1904); Chapter 9 Crane, Stephen(1871'"1900); Chapter 10 Dreiser, Theodore(1871'"1945); Chapter 11 Du Bois, W.E.B.(1868'"1963); Chapter 12 Dunbar, Paul Laurence(1872'"1906); Chapter 13 Howells, William Dean(1837'"1920); Chapter 14 Huckleberry Fínn; Chapter 15 James, Henry(1843'"1916); Chapter 16 London, Jack(1876'"1916); Chapter 17 Muckraking; Chapter 18 Naturalism; Chapter 19 Realism; Chapter 20 Riis, Jacob(1849'"1914); Chapter 21 Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869'"1935); Chapter 22 Sinclair, Upton(1878'"1968); Chapter 23 Turner, Frederick Jackson(1861'"1932); Chapter 24 Twain, Mark(1835'"1910); Chapter 25 Wharton, Edith(1862'"1937);