SOURCE: “Popular Culture and Public Taste” in The Gilded Age: Revised and Enlarged Edition, edited by H. Wayne Morgan, Syracuse University Press, 1970, pp. 275-88.
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, theatre, lyric, and decor.
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