American literature in context from 1865 to 1929
By: Philip R. Yannella.
Series: Literature in context
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781405167819; 9781405167802
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and history -- United States; American literature
Description: "This book places major literary works within the context of the topics that engaged a great number of American writers in the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression. Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual re-enslavement of African-Americans after Reconstruction, and radical social movements. The book draws on a range of documents from magazine and newspaper accounts to government reports and important non-fiction and presents a contemporary history as writers might have understood it as they were writing, not as historians have interpreted it."--From publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Civil war memories; title: "A serfdom of poverty and restricted rights" : Black Americans after emancipation; title: Immigrants; title: Countrysides; title: The poor and the wealthy; title: To change America; title: Culminations : from the US entry into World War I to 1929.