America at the last fin de siecle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. "The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader" is a wide-ranging anthology of essays, criticism, and fiction first printed in periodicals during those last remarkable years of the nineteenth century, a decade commonly referred to as the "golden age" of periodical culture. To depict the many changes taking place in the...
America at the last fin de siecle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense...
The years between 1880 and 1930 are usually seen as a time in which American writers replaced values and traditions of the Victorian era, and the turn of the century is typically used as a dividing line between the old and the new. This volume argues that this entire time span should rather be studied as a coherent and complex literary field.
The years between 1880 and 1930 are usually seen as a time in which American writers replaced values and traditions of the Victorian era, and the turn...
