Unit 9
Social Realism
Class Consciousness in American Literature, 1875-1920
Authors and Works 366
Overview Questions 366
Learning Objective 367
Overview 367
Video Overview 368
Discussion Questions for the Video 369
Timeline 370
Author/Text Review 371
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) 371
Questions 372
Web Archive 372
Henry James (1843-1916) 372
Questions 374
Web Archive 374
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) 374
Questions 376
Web Archine 376
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) 377
Questions 378
Web Archive 378
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) 378
Questions 380
Web Archive 380
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865-1914_ 380
Questions 381
Web Archive 381
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 382
Questions 383
Web Archive 383
Theodore Drieser (1871-1945) 384
Questions 385
Web Archive 385
Henry Adams (1838-1918) 386
Questions 387
Web Archive 387
Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880-1970) 368
Web Archive 389
Questions 390
Core Contexts 390
The Gospel of Wealth: Robber Barons and the Rise of Monopoly Capitalism 390
Web Archive 391
Questions 392
Making Amendments: The Woman Suffrage Movement 392
Web Archive 394
Questions 396
Coming to America: Immigrants at Ellis Island 396
Questions 397
Web Archive 397
Extended Contexts 398
How the Other Half Lived: The Lower East Side 398
Questions 399
Web Archive 399
Elevating an Elite: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Talented Tenth
Questions 400
Web Archive 401
Assignments 401
Personal and Creative Responses 401
Problem-Based Learning Projects 401
Glossary 402
Selected Bibliography 403
Further Resources 404