The American 1890s
by Smith, Susan Harris; Dawson, MelanieFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"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"
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Timeline of America at Century's End | |
| Introduction | |
| Becoming Cultured and Culture as Commodity | |
| "The Ideal of Culture" (Chautauquan) | |
| "Wealth" (North American Review) | |
| 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) | |
| "The Pelican" (Scribner's) | |
| "The Economic Theory of Women's Dress" (Popular Science Monthly) | |
| The Idea of Types | |
| "The Modern American Mood" (Harper's) | |
| "The Provincials," | |
| from a series, "Sketches of American Types" (Scribner's) | |
| "The Conduct of Life," | |
| from a series, "The Art of Living" (Scribner's) | |
| "Talma Gordon" (Colored American Magazine) | |
| "The Ecollege Graduate and Public Life" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "The Awakening of the Negro" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future" (Arena) | |
| Labor | |
| "The Workers—The West: Among the Revolutionaries" (Scribner's) | |
| "In the Depths of a Coal Mine" (McClure's) | |
| "A Paying Concern: A True Story of American Factory Life" (McClure's) | |
| "The Night Run of the 'Overland': A Story of Domestic Life Among the Railroad People" (McClure's) | |
| "Women and Girls in Sweat-Shops" (Chautauquan) | |
| "Working-Girls Clubs," (Scribner's) | |
| Social, Ethnic, and Racial Strife | |
| "Club Life Among Outcasts" (Harper's) | |
| "The Future of the Red Man" (Forum) | |
| "Lynch Law in the South" (North American Review) | |
| "A Ghetto Wedding" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "The Genesis of the Gang" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "Step-Brothers to Dives" (Harper's) | |
| Mental Health & Physical Training | |
| The Gospel of Relaxation" (Scribner's) | |
| "Fashion's Slaves" (Arena) | |
| Woman and the Bicycle" (Scribner's) | |
| "A Fin de Cycle Incident" (Outing) | |
| "Physical Education vs. Degeneracy" (Independent) | |
| "On Being Civilized Too Much" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| The Promises of Formal Education | |
| "A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "Modern College Education" (Cosmopolitan) | |
| "The Greatest Need of College Girls" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "The School Days of an Indian Girl" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "The March of Progress" (Century) | |
| "The Ingrate" (New England Magazine) | |
| "The Genius of Bowlder Bluff" (Scribner's) | |
| The Future and Cultural Change | |
| "What a Great City Might Be—A Lesson from the White City" (New England Magazine) | |
| "The Problem of the West" (Atlantic Monthly) | |
| "The Divorce of Man from Nature" (Arena) | |
| "Susan's Escort" (Harper's) | |
| "Twenty-Four: Four" (Harper's) | |
| "Within an Ace of the End of the World" (McClure's) | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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