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Benfey, Christopher. The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. NY: Random House, 2003.

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Blanchard, Mary W. Oscar Wilde’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Blanchard, Patricia. Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Blum, Stella, ed. Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar, 1867-1898. NY: Dover, 1974.

Bodnar, John, ed. Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Boyer, Paul S. Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Bronner, Simon J., ed. Folklife Studies from the Gilded Age: Object, Rite, and Custom in Victorian America. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987.

Brown, Bill. The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane and the Economics of Play. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Cable, Mary. Top Drawer: American High Society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties. NY: Atheneum, 1984.

Cane, Aleta F., and Susan Alves, eds. “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.

Carter, Paul A. The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1971.

Cassity, Micahel J. Defending a Way of Life: An American Community in the Nineteenth Century. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Chambers, Thomas A. Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-Century Mineral Springs. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

Chudacoff, Howard P. The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Cmiel, Kenneth. Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America. NY: Morrow, 1990.

Conn, Peter J. The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in American 1898-1917. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Corrigan, John. Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Cotkin, George. Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900. NY: Twayne, 1992.

Davis, Janet M. The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Davis, Linda H. Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Dunlop, M.H. Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the Nineteenth-Century American Interior. NY: Basic Books, 1995.

Edwards, Holly, ed. Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Fanning, Phillip Ashley. Mark Twain and Orion Clemens: Brothers,Partners, Strangers. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2003.

Fischer, Gayle V. Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001.

Foreman, John. The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age: Architectural Aspirations, 1879-1901. NY: St. Martin’s, 1991.

French, Bryant Morey. Mark Twain and The Gilded Age: The Book that Named an Era. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1965.

Fuller, Wayne E. Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America . Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Graham, Stephen R. Cosmos in the Chaos: Philip Schaff’s Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century American Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1995.

Grover, Kathryn, ed. Dining in America, 1850-1900. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.

Hacsi, Timothy A. Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Hansen, Jonathan M. The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American identity, 1890-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Harmond, Richard P. A History of Memorial Day: Unity, Discord and the Pursuit of Happiness. NY: P. Lang, 2002.

Hilkey, Judy A. Character Is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Irmscher, Christoph. The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Kaestle, Carl F., et al. Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.

Kasson, John F. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century America. NY: Hill and Wang, 1990.

Kilmer, Paulette D. The Fear of Sinking: The American Success Formula in the Gilded Age. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.

Klaw, Spencer. Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community. NY: Allen Lane, 1993.

Klein, Marcus. Easterners, Westerners, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Kuklick, Bruce. Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Laderman, Gary. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. NY: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Levenstein, Harvey A. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. NY: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Lewis, Robert M., ed. From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, .

Livingston, James. Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

McCash, William B. The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America’s Millionaires. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Mitchell, Charles E. Individualism and Its Discontents: Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. NY: Basic Books, 1993.

Oberdeck, Kathryn J. The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Ogle, Maureen. All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

O’Toole, Patricia. The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918. NY: C.N. Potter, 1990.

Orvell, Miles. The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Pfaelzer, Jean. The Utopian Novel in America, 1886-1896: The Politics of Form. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.

Phillips, Kate. Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Platt, Frederick. America’s Gilded Age: Its Architecture and Decoration . South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1976.

Potter, David W. People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.

Powers, Madelon. Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Raffel, Burton. Politicians, Poets, and Con Men: Emotional History in Late Victorian America. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1986.

Rauchway, Eric. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America. NY: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Restad, Penne L. Christmas in America: A History. NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Rieser, Andrew Chamberlin. The Chautauqua Movement: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920. NY: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Robertson, Darrel M. The Chicago Revival, 1876: Society and Revivalism in a Nineteenth-Century City. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989.

Robertson, Michael. Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature. NY: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses. 1900

Rose, Elizabeth R. A Mother’s Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Saum, Lewis O. The Popular Mood of America, 1860-1890. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Schlereth, Thomas J. American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services. Knoxville, TN: University Of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915. NY: HarperPerennial, 1992.

Schollander, Wendell, and Wes Schollander. Forgotten Elegance: The Art, Artifacts, and Peculiar History of Victorian and Edwardian Entertaining in America Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Schulten, Susan. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Sellers, Richard W. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Severa, Joan L. Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1995.

Shaffer, Marguerite S. See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Sheehan, Donald H. This Was Publishing: A Chronicle of the Book Trade in the Gilded Age. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1952.

Shi, David E. Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920. NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Stearns, Peter N. Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America. NY: New York University Press, 1999.

Sterngass, Jon. First Resort: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Stevenson, Louise L. The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. NY: Pantheon Books, 1982.

Tchen, John K.W. New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Teachout, Terry. The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken. NY: HarperCollins, 2002.

Tomko, Linda J. Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Tomsich, John. A Genteel Endeavor: American Culture and Politics in the Gilded Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.

Tweed, Thomas A. The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Van Slyck, Abigail A. Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Weil, Gordon L. Sears, Roebuck, U.S.A.: The Great American Catalog Store and How It Grew. NY: Stein and Day, 1977.

Williams, Susan. Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. NY: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Wrobel, David M. The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.