TY - BOOK AU - Ziff,Larzer TI - The American 1890s: life and time of a lost generation SN - 9780803249004 AV - PS214.Z68.A447 1979 PY - 1979///. 1966 CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism N1 - "A Bison book."; Reprint of the edition published by Viking Press, New York; 2; 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 Frederick, The Roosevelt-Adams outlook, Owen Wister --; Being old-fashioned; F. Marion Crawford and John Jay Chapman --; Life without style; Frank Norris --; An abyss of inequality; Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin --; In and out of Laodicea; The Harvard poets and Edwin Arlington Robinson --; A decade's delay; Theodore Dreiser; 2 ER -