The Poet and the Gilded Age : Social Themes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Verse

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Preface Acknowledgments Contents Illustrations I. The Poet and the Gilded Age II. Westward to Destiny III. Gotham and Gomorrah IV. Progress and Protest V. Statesmen and Spoilsmen VI. Wine and Women, a Song of Reform VII. Immigration and Internationalism VIII. For Darwin, for Mammon, and for Country IX. The Poet and the Age of Guilt Appendix: An Experiment in Quantitative Appraisal Bibliography Index