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<p>America at the last fin de siècle 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. <i>The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader</i> 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.<br> To depict the many changes taking place in the United States at this time, Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson have drawn from an eclectic range of periodicals: elite monthlies such as <i>Scribner’s, Harper’s,</i> and the <i>Atlantic Monthly;</i> political magazines such as the <i>North American Review</i> and <i>Forum;</i> magazines for general readers such as <i>Cosmopolitan</i> and <i>McClures;</i> and specialized publications including the <i>Chatauquan, Outing,</i> and <i>Colored American Magazine.</i> Authors represented in the collection include Andrew Carnegie, Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Was

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Author

Smith, Susan Harris (editor);Dawson, Melanie (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822380856

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Literary Fiction