The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader

by Susan Harris Smith

Book Overview

America at the last fin de si cle 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325128
• ISBN13: 9780822325123
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"