UID:
almafu_9959677305502883
Format:
1 online resource (487 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-90371-3
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9786612903717
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0-8223-8085-4
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
An anthology of articles from periodicals of the 1890s, chosen to reflect various aspects of American culture during the last fin-de-siecle.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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1. Becoming cultured and culture as commodity. "The ideal of culture" / F.W. Gunsaulus -- "Wealth" / Andrew Carnegie -- Brief observations on the habit of reading. "The reading habit" ; "Courses of reading" ; "What Chicago people read" ; "A note on servants' libraries" -- "The novel-reading habit"/ George Clarke -- "The pelican" / Edith Wharton -- "The economic theory of women's dress" / Thorstein Veblen -- 2. The idea of types. "The modern American mood" / William Dean Howells -- "The provincials," from a series "Sketches of American types" / Octave Thanet -- "The conduct of life" from a series "The art of living" / Robert Grant -- "The college graduate and public life" / Theodore Roosevelt -- "The awakening of the Negro" / Booker T. Washington -- 3. Labor. "The workers-- the West : among the revolutionaries" / Walter A. Wyckoff -- "In the depths of a coal mine" / Stephen Crane -- "A paying concern : a true story of American factory life" / Gertrude Roscoe -- "The night run of the 'Overland' : a story of domestic life among the railroad people" / Elmore Elliott Peake -- "Women and girls in sweat-shops" / Florence Kelley -- "Working-girls clubs" / Clara Sidney Davidge --
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4. Social, ethnic, and racial strife. "Club life among outcasts" / Josiah Flynt -- "The future of the red man" / Simon Pokagon -- "Lynch law in the South" / Frederick Douglass -- "A ghetto wedding" / Abraham Cahan -- "The genesis of the gang" / Jacob A. Riis -- "Step-brothers to dives" / Louise Betts Edwards -- 5. Mental health & physical training. "The gospel of relaxation" / William James -- "Fashion's slaves" / B.O. Flower -- "Woman and the bicycle" / Marguerite Merington -- "A fin de cycle incident" / Edna C. Jackson -- "Physical education vs degeneracy" / H.W. Foster -- "On being civilized too much" / Henry Charles Merwin --
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6. The promises of formal education. "A Negro schoolmaster in the new South" / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- "Modern college education" / John Brisben Walker -- "The greatest need of college girls" / Annie Payson Call -- "The school days of an Indian girl" / Zitkala-Sa -- "The march of progress" / Charles W. Chesnutt -- "The ingrate" / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- "The genius of Bowlder Bluff" / Abbe Carter Goodloe -- 7. The future & cultural change. "What a great city might be-- a lesson from the White City" / John Coleman Adams -- "The problem of the West" / Frederick J. Turner -- "The divorce of man from nature" / Anna R. Weeks -- "Susan's escort" / Edward Everett Hale -- "Twenty-four: four" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- "Within an ace of the end of the world" / Robert Barr.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-2512-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-2476-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822380856
