Gilded Age Summary

The Gilded Age The foundations of industrialism (the social system that results from an economy based on large-scale industries) were established in the United States during the first wave of industri... Read more

In the following essay, Tomsich discusses the “genteel” authors of the Gilded Age, whose religious faith faded with the influence of evolutionary theory and gave way to a sometimes fatal... Read more

In the excerpt below, Cordery enumerates the limitations placed on women by the domestic ideologies of the Gilded Age and shows how, in spite of these, many women were influential activists. Women wer... Read more

In the following essay, Ickstadt argues that in response to the increasing fragmentation of American society in the Gilded Age, many authors attempted to create a sense of community through utopian sy... Read more

In the following essay, Falk characterizes the Gilded Age as a time of great literary change, largely due to a break from Romanticism and a movement toward increased realism. The serious writers of an... Read more

In the following essay, Roberts reflects on the Gilded Age as an era of popular aesthetic interest, wherein high and low-brow culture interacted to create a distinctly American fiction, journalism, th... Read more

In the excerpt below, Dormon surveys the use of ethnic stereotypes in American cartoon periodicals of the Gilded Age. He argues that they express increasing levels of fear and ethnocentrism in respons... Read more

There is an old proverb saying, "History repeats itself." This proverb has certainly proven itself true. Civilizations predictably collapse within 300 to 900 years after their inception, proven by cou... Read more

As the troublesome doors of the Reconstruction period began to close, the more troublesome doors of the Gilded Age opened releasing corruptness and competitiveness that took over the United States gov... Read more