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Presents the authors of the American Gilded Age and juxtaposes them with social realists. These writers expose the double world that made up turn–of–the–century New York: that of the elite and that of the poorest of the poor.
Explores many facets of the Gilded Age, including industrialization and the growth of big business, the urbanization of America, the grueling working conditions many endured, and the influence of Victorian culture on American society.
Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism by 
