The American 1890s: a cultural reader

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Susan Harris (MitwirkendeR), Dawson, Melanie 1967- (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2000
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Zusammenfassung: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 --
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-463) and index
Beschreibung:xv, 468 p ill 24 cm
ISBN:9780822380856
0822380854

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