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 United States at
this time, Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson have drawn from an
eclectic range of periodicals: elite monthlies such as "Scribner's,
Harper's, " and the "Atlantic Monthly;" political magazines such as
the "North American Review" and "Forum;" magazines for general
readers such as "Cosmopolitan" and "McClures;" and specialized
publications including the "Chatauquan, Outing, " and "Colored
American Magazine." Authors represented in the collection include
Andrew Carnegie, Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B.
Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Stephen Crane,
W. E. B. DuBois, Jacob Riis, and Frederick Jackson Turner. A
general introduction to the period, a brief contextualizing essay
for each selection, and a comprehensive bibliography of secondary
sources are provided as well. In examining and debating the
decade's momentous political and social developments, the essays,
editorials, and stories in this anthology reflect a constantly
shifting culture at a time of internal turmoil, unprecedented
political expansion, and a renaissance of modern ideas and new
technologies.
Bringing together a carefully chosen selection of primary sources,
"The American 1890s" presents a remarkable variety of
views--nostalgic, protective, imperialist, progressive,
egalitarian, and democratic--held by American citizens a century
ago.
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