Publishing & Literary Culture
This 1891 law protected authors’ rights both in the United States and internationally.
What is the Copyright Act of 1891?
Many Americans believed their society was shaped by these types of forces beyond their control.
What are unseen forces?
From 1880–1900, many women participated in organizations of this type.
What are social clubs?
After westward expansion ended, Americans increasingly looked here for new opportunities.
Where is abroad?
This major economic crisis produced widespread unemployment and hardship.
What is the Great Depression?
By the turn of the twentieth century, the center of the U.S. publishing industry moved to this city.
What is New York?
Ideas of evolution and competition influenced American thought for approximately this long.
What is about fifty years?
Women gained the right to vote nationally in this year.
What is 1920?
This independence movement began in 1899 after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Filipino independence movement?
This government program was introduced to respond to that economic crisis.
What is the New Deal?
After the Civil War, American literature began transitioning with writers such as Twain, Crane, and this naturalist author.
Who is Jack London?
These three groups were often targets of violence justified by Social Darwinist ideas.
Who are Asian immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans?
The “Woman Question” debated the changing expectations of this group in society.
Who are women?
The Spanish-American War occurred in this year.
What is 1898?
The Harlem Renaissance centered on this New York neighborhood.
What is Harlem?
Many commentators feared that white-collar work was creating this problem in American men.
What is softness and overcivilization?
Naturalist writers often focused on characters from this part of society.
What are the fringes and the lower class?
Authors such as Chopin and Wharton often wrote about women seeking this condition.
What is autonomy or independence?
This shift in focus marked America’s growing role as an international power.
What is expansion beyond its borders?
This technological development helped transform daily life in the early twentieth century.
What are automobiles and electricity?
These forms of mass communication expanded during the early twentieth century.
What are film, radio, and magazines?
Compared to earlier realists, naturalist writers emphasized this literary element more strongly.
What is plot?
The emergence of this concept challenged traditional gender roles in American society.
What is the New Woman?
World War II marked the end of this literary era and confirmed this country as a global power.
What is the United States?
The Spanish Flu reinforced literary themes of this human condition.
What is fragility and vulnerability?