American Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929

Timeline of Texts and Historical Events viii

Introduction 1

1 Civil War Memories 6

2 “A Serfdom of Poverty and Restricted Rights”: Black Americans after Emancipation 16

3 Immigrants 33

4 Countrysides 54

5 The Poor and the Wealthy 68

6 To Change America 86

7 Culminations: From the US Entry into World War I to 1929 114

Index 138