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.

Provides historical context for multiple key works of literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive era

Series ForewordChronology of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraPart I: The Gilded AgeIntroduction and Background: The Gilded Age1 A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain, 1889)Synopsis of A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's CourtHistorical Background: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court in the Gilded AgeAbout Mark TwainWhy We Read A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court TodayHistorical Explorations of A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's CourtHistorical Exploration: The Gilded Age, The Middle AgesHistorical Exploration: Industrial TechnologyHistorical Exploration: Social Turmoil in Gilded Age AmericaHistorical Exploration: Social Ills and Social Health in Gilded Age AmericaDocumenting the Gilded Ages and the Middle AgesDocument: From The Bradley-Martin Ball, February 10, 1897 (reported in the New York Times)Document: From W[illiam] J[ames] Ghent, Our Benevolent Feudalism, 1902Document: From Terence Powderly, The Path I Trod, 1940Document: From Carroll D. Wright, "In Mediaeval and Modern Industry," in The Battles of Labor, 1906Document: From Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin," in The Education of Henry Adams, 1900Documenting Industrial TechnologyDocument: From William Dean Howells, "Characteristics of the International Fair," Atlantic Monthly, October 1876Document: From Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879Document: From Rex Beach, The Iron Trail, 1913Document: From Frances Willard, "Telegraph and Telephone Girls," in Occupations for Women, 1897Documenting Social Turmoil in Gilded Age AmericaDocument: From Jacob Riis, "The Down Town Back-Alleys" and "The Problem of the Children," in How the Other Half Lives, 1890Document: Griffith J. Griffith, "San Quentin As I Knew It," in Crime and Criminals, 1910Document: From Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynch Law in America," in The Arena, January 1900Document: Richard Le Gallienne, The Illusion of War, in The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time, 1915Documenting Social Ills and Social Health in Gilded Age AmericaDocument: From Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward-2000-1887, 1888Document: From Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889Document: From William Graham Sumner, "That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich" and "Laissez Faire," in What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 1884Document: From Henry George, "The Problem," in Progress and Poverty, 1879Document: From Jack London, "What Life Means to Me," in Cosmopolitan, 1905Suggested Readings2 "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892)Synopsis of "The Yellow Wallpaper,"Historical Background: "The Yellow Wallpaper,"About Charlotte Perkins GilmanWhy We Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" TodayHistorical Explorations of "The Yellow Wallpaper,"Historical Exploration: Women's HealthHistorical Exploration: "Interiors,"Historical Exploration: Citizen Reformers in Gilded Age and Progressive AmericaDocumenting Women's HealthDocument: From S. Weir Mitchell, Fat and Blood, 1877Document: From George M. Beard, American Nervousness, 1881Document: From Lydia E. Pinkham, Treatise on the Diseases of Women, 1901Documenting "Interiors,"Document: From M. E. Kenney, "Decorative Fashions and Fancies," in Good Housekeeping, 1890Document: From Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses, 1897Document: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home, 1903Documenting Citizen Reformers in Gilded Age and Progressive AmericaDocument: From Frances Willard, "Chances for Colored Girls," in Occupations for Women, 1897Document: From Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics, 1902Document: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper," 1913Document: From Crystal Eastman, "Birth Control in the Feminist Program," 1918Suggested ReadingsPart II: The Progressive EraIntroduction and Background: The Progressive Era3 The Jungle (Upton Sinclair, 1906)Synopsis of The JungleHistorical Background of The JungleAbout Upton SinclairWhy We Read The Jungle TodayHistorical Explorations of The JungleHistorical Exploration: The Workplace and the Progressive EraHistorical Exploration: Immigrant VoicesHistorical Exploration: Officials for a Better WorldDocumenting the WorkplaceDocument: From Frances Willard, "Occupations that Kill," in Occupations for Women, 1897Document: From Jack London, Martin Eden, 1909Document: From Jack London, "The Apostate," in Woman's Home Companion, 1906Document: From Mary Harris, "The March of the Mill Children," in The Autobiography of Mother Jones, 1925Document: From Walter Rauschenbusch, "For Children Who Work," in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910Documenting Immigrant VoicesDocument: From Sui Sin Far, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance," 1910Document: From Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky, 1917Document: From Walter Rauschenbusch, "For Immigrants," in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910Documenting Officials for a Better WorldDocument: From Theodore Roosevelt, The Man with the Muck-Rake, 1906Document: From John Dewey, The School and Society, 1915Document: From Walter Rauschenbusch, "For Employers," in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910Document: From Woodrow Wilson, The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, 1907Document: From Lincoln Steffens, "Introduction and Some Conclusions," The Shame of the Cities, 1904Suggested Readings4 A Lost Lady (Willa Cather, 1924)Synopsis of A Lost LadyHistorical Background: A Lost LadyAbout Willa CatherWhy We Read A Lost Lady TodayHistorical Explorations of A Lost LadyHistorical Exploration: PropertyHistorical Exploration: ProprietyHistorical Exploration: America the BeautifulDocumenting PropertyDocument: From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," 1848Document: From Hamlin Garland, "Under the Lion's Paw," in Main-Traveled Roads, 1891Document: From Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, 1875Documenting ProprietyDocument: From M.E.W. Sherwood, Manners and Social Usages, 1887Document: From Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism, 1899Document: From Boy Scouts of America: The Official Handbook for Boys, 1911Documenting America the BeautifulDocument: From Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron," 1886Document: From John Muir, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park," 1890Document: From Theodore Roosevelt, "Wilderness Reserves," in American Big Game in Its Haunts, 1904Suggested ReadingsIndex