Ziff, Larzer,  1927-, <br/><br/>
The American 1890s :  life and time of a lost generation /  [print] 
Larzer Ziff. 
 - Lincoln :  University of Nebraska Press,  (c)1979. 1966. 
 - viii, 376 pages ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> "A Bison book."  Reprint of the edition published by Viking Press, New York. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Land of contrasts --  Literary hospitality  Literary absenteeism  The midwestern imagination --  Crushed yet complacent  The tinkle of the little bell: magazines --  The school in the cemetery: newspapers --  The poles of violence  Outstripping the event  Overcivilization  Being old-fashioned  Life without style  An abyss of inequality  In and out of Laodicea  A decade's delay  William Dean Howells --  Henry James and Mark Twain --  Hamlin Garland and Henry Blake Fuller --  Ambrose Bierce and Richard Harding Davis --  Stephen Crane --  Harold Frederick, The Roosevelt-Adams outlook, Owen Wister --  F. Marion Crawford and John Jay Chapman --  Frank Norris --  Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin --  The Harvard poets and Edwin Arlington Robinson --  Theodore Dreiser. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780803249004 9780803299009 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>79014754 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS214.Z68.A447 1979 PS214