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The Gilded Age and Progressive era : a historical exploration of literature / Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi.

by Martin, Wendy, author., Tichi, Cecelia, author.

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2016]

Historical explorations of literature.

xix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

pt. I. The Gilded Age -- 1. A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, 1889 / Mark Twain -- Synopsis -- Historical background -- About Mark Twain -- Historical explorations -- The Gilded Age, the Middle Ages -- Industrial technology -- Social turmoil in Gilded Age America -- Documenting the Gilded Ages and the Middle Ages -- Document , from The Bradley-Martin Ball, February 10, 1897 / New York Times -- Document, from Our benevolent feudalism, 1902 / William James Ghent -- Document, The path I trod, 1940 / Terence Powderly -- Document, "In Mediaeval and modern industry", in The Battles of Labor, 1906 / Carroll D. Wright -- Document, from "The dynamo and the virgin" in The Education of Henry Adams, 1900 / Henry Adams -- Documenting industrial technology -- Document, from "characteristics of the international fair", / William Dean Howells, Atlantic Monthly, October 1876 -- Document, Progress and Poverty, 1879 / Henry George -- Document, The Iron Trail, 1913 / Rex Beach -- Document, from "Telegraph and telephone girls" in Occupations for Women, 1897 / Frances Willard -- Documenting social turmoil in Gilded Age America -- Document, from "The down town back-alleys" and "The problem of the children" in How the Other Half Lives, 1890 / Jacob Riis -- Document, "San Quentin as I knew it" in Crime and Criminals, 1910 / Griffith J. Griffith -- Document, from "Lynch law in America" in The Arena, January 1900 / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Document, The illusion of war, in The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time, 1915 / Richard Le Gallienne -- Documenting social ills and social health in Gilded Age America -- Document, from Looking Backward : 2000-1887, 1888 -- Document, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 / Andrew Carnegie -- Document, from "that it is not wicked to be rich" and "Laissez faire" in What Social classes Owe Each Other, 1884 / William Graham Sumner -- Document, from "The problem" in Progress and Poverty, 1879 / Henry George -- Document, from "What life means to me" in Cosmopolitan, 1905 / Jack London --

2. "The Yellow Wallpaper" , 1892 / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Synopsis -- Historical background -- About Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Historical explorations -- Women's health -- "Interiors" -- Citizen reformers in Gilded Age and Progressive America -- Documenting women's health -- Document, from Fat and Blood, 1877 / S. Weir Mitchell -- Document, from American Nervousness, 1881 / George M. Beard -- Document, from Treatise on the Diseases of Women, 1901 / Lydia E. Pinkham -- Documenting "Interiors" -- Document, from "Decorative fashions and fancies" in Good Housekeeping, 1890 / M.E. Kenney -- Document, from The Decoration of Houses, 1897 / Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman -- Document, from The Home, 1903 / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Documenting citizen reformers in Gilded Age and Progressive America -- Document, from "Chances for colored girls" in Occupations for Women, 1897 / Frances Willard -- Document, from Democracy and Social Ethics, 1902 / Jane Addams -- Document, "Why I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, 1913 / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Document, from "Birth control in the feminist program" , 1918 / Crystal Eastman --

pt. II. The Progressive Era -- 3. The Jungle, 1906 / Upton Sinclair -- Synopsis -- Historical background -- About Upton Sinclair -- Historical explorations -- The workplace and the Progressive Era -- Immigrant voices -- Officials for a better world -- Documenting the workplace -- Document, from "Occupations that kill" in Occupations for Women, 1897 / Frances Willard -- Document, from Martin Eden, 1909 / Jack London -- Document, from "The apostate" in Woman's Home Companion, 1906 / Jack London -- Document, from "the march of the mill children" in THe Autobiography of Mother Jones, 1925 / Mary Harris -- Document, from "For children who work" in For God and the People : Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910 / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Documenting immigrant voices -- Document, from "Mrs. Spring Fragrance", 1910 / Sui Sin Far -- Document, from The Rise of David Levinsky, 1917 / Abraham Cahan -- Document, from "For Immigrants" in For God and the People : Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910 / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Documenting officials for a better world -- Document, from The Man with the Muck-Rake, 1906 / Theodore Roosevelt -- Document, from The School and Society, 1915 / John Dewey -- Document, from "For employers" in For God and the People : Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910 / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Document, from "Introduction and some conclusions" , The Shame of the Cities, 1904 / Lincoln Steffens --

4. A Lost Lady, 1924 / Willa Cather -- Synopsis -- Historical background -- About Willa Cather -- Historical explorations -- Property -- Propriety -- America the beautiful -- Documenting property -- Document, from "Declaration of sentiments and resolutions" , 1848 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Document, from "Under the lion's paw" in Main-Traveled Roads, 1891 / Hamlin Garland -- Document, from The Way We Live Now, 1875 / Anthony Trollope -- Documenting propriety -- Document, from Manners and Social Usages, 1887 / M.E.W. Sherwood -- Document, from Studies in the Psychology of Sex : the Evolution of Modesty, the Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism, 1899 / Havelock Ellis -- Document, from Boy Scouts of America : the Official Handbook for boys, 1911 -- Documenting America the beautiful -- Document, from "A white heron" , 1886 / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Document, from "The treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the proposed Yosemite National Park" , 1890 / John Muir -- Document, from "Wilderness reserves" in American Big Game in Its Haunts, 1904 / Theodore Roosevelt.

"This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive era that serves teachers and their students. Integrates and aligns material for American literature and social studies curricula. Offers a range of tools to support literary works--analysis, history, document excerpts, and areas for study. Provides historical context for multiple key works of literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive era"--

"The Historical Explorations of Literature series is designed to help students to understand key works of American literature by putting them in the context of history, society, and culture through historical context essays, literary analysis, chronologies, primary source documents, and suggestions further research. Each volume in the series covers four or five canonical works related to a particular area of American literature--significant literary productions of the Jazz Age or the Harlem Renaissance, for example. For each title covered, students will find a brief synopsis of the work; separate essays on the work's historical background and the author's biographical background; an essay on "Why We Read This Work," summarizing the work's enduring value and significance; and a series of thematic "Historical Explorations" that include a selection of related primary documents"--

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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