LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf The emergence of American industrial capitalism Economy, culture and foreign policy 1.The late 19 th century : expansion and tensions 2.The turn of the century : reform and … more expansion 3.The aftermath of WW1 and the 1920s : modernity and … tensions

LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf The emergence of American industrial capitalism Economy, culture and foreign policy Or : the roots of the American modern 1.The late 19 th century : expansion and tensions. The social forces at play in the « Gilded age » 1.Economy 2.Immigration 3.Urban life 2.Social tensions, social reforms, progressivism 1.The price of the « Gilded Age » 2.The plight of the farmers 3.Progressivism 3.The Return to Normalcy? 1.Economic prosperity, but not for all 2.The ideology of business 3.The ambiguous culture of the decade

LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf

The Flatiron Building, ca 1903

LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf Chicago Masonic Temple ( )

LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf Ca 1906

LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf

LEA 2 Cours de civilisation américaine J. Kempf

Nostalgic “local color” literature Bret Harte : “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” (1860s), Hamlin Garland, Main- Traveled Roads (1891) and Mark Twain (Huck Finn, 1884) Brutality of the changing economy in the Gilded Age and the consequences of the move to the city William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) in the Bowery Horatio Alger wrote a score of juvenile novels between the 1860 to 1890s Naturalists Frank Norris (McTeague, 1899; The Octopus, 1901), Stephen Crane (Maggie, 1893; Red Badge of Courage, 1895 on Civil War) Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie, 1900, The Financier, 1912 and The Titan, 1914, An American Tragedy, 1925).