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Romanticsm
Romanticism is a literary movement spanning roughly 1790–1850. The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy. -
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The Victorian Era
Victorian era, in British history, the period between approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world. -
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American Realism
American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century. -
Horatio Alger publishes Ragged Dick
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The Gilded Age
The "Gilded Age" term came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Walter Pater published The Renaissance
Oxford Professor Walter Pater publishes his study of art and poetry The Renaissance with its infamous "Conclusion," which seems to promote hedonism and non-compliance with the strict moralism of the Victorian Era. Pater's work had a significant influence on many artists and writers, especially his former student Oscar Wilde. I would argue that Willa Cather in 1905 creates fictional response to his ideas with her short story "Paul's Case." -
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The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. -
Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike
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Modernism
The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanization, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. -
McKinley Elected US President
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Release of The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent short Western film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam locomotive at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals.
Photographed in New York and New Jersey in November 1903; the Edison studio began selling it to vaudeville houses and other venues in the following month. -
Willa Cather publishes "Paul's Case"