The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature

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This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students. This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by putting them in the context of history, society, and culture through historical context essays, literary analysis, chronologies, documents, and suggestions for discussion and further research. It provides teachers and students with selections that align with the ELA Common Core Standards and that also offer useful connections for curriculum that integrates American literature and social studies. The book covers Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Readers will be able to appreciate the significance of this period through these canonical and widely taught works of American literature. The book also includes historical context essays, primary document excerpts, and suggested readings.

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[T]his is a good resource for those embarking on the study of U.S. literature; in addition, it will be helpful for students of education, since it illustrates how to plan an instructional unit for high school students to explore. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *
Overall, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a well-written, informative, and thought-provoking book. This volume is a useful tool to help readers understand the sometimes perplexing works of the American past, with their unfamiliar language and references to obsolete technologies, such as the telegraph. Therefore, this volume is highly recommended for purchase by all public and academic libraries. * ARBA *

Author Bio

Wendy Martin is professor of American literature and American studies and director of the Tufts Poetry Awards Program at Claremont Graduate University. Cecelia Tichiis the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and professor of American studies at Vanderbilt University.