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The American 1890s; life and times of a lost generation / Larzer Ziff.
LIBRA PS214 .Z5 1966
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ziff, Larzer, 1927-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 376 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, [1966]
- Contents:
- Land of contrasts
- Literary hospitality: William Dean Howells
- Literary absenteeism: Henry James and Mark Twain
- The Midwestern imagination
- Crushed yet complacent: Hamlin Garland and Henry Blake Fuller
- The tinkle of the little bell: magazines
- The school in the cemetery: newspapers
- The poles of violence: Ambrose Bierce and Richard Harding Davis
- Outstripping the event: Stephen Crane
- Overcivilization: Harold Frederic, the Roosevelt-Adams outlook, Owen Wister
- Being old-fashioned: F. Marion Crawford and John Jay Chapman
- Life without style: Frank Norris
- The abyss of inequality: Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin
- In and out of Laodicea: The Harvard Poets and Edwin Arlington
- A decade's delay: Theodore Dreiser.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages [351]-365).
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