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Novelists and Journalists of the Progressive Era

Novelists and Journalists of the Progressive Era. Aka “Muckrakers” . Muckrakers. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the gold of the “gilded age” was peeling away to reveal the not-so-golden truths of corporations and urbanization.

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Novelists and Journalists of the Progressive Era

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  1. Novelists and Journalists of the Progressive Era Aka “Muckrakers”

  2. Muckrakers • During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the gold of the “gilded age” was peeling away to reveal the not-so-golden truths of corporations and urbanization. • People who brought awareness to this were called Muckrakers and got their message across with advances in photo and press distribution. • Citizens of this time, especially the middle class, wanted to work to improve the lives and work conditions of everyone.

  3. Henry Demarest Lloyd • Wealth Against the Common Wealth 1894 • Was an eye-opening expose of the Standard Oil Company

  4. Frank Norris • The Octopus 1901 • Elaborated the struggle between wheat farmers and huge railroad monopolies.

  5. David Graham Phillips • Susan Lennox: Her Rise and Fall 1917 • Brought light to slum life, immigration, and political corruption.

  6. Theodore Drieser • The Financier 1912 • Memoir of business tycoon who had no moral principles whatsoever. This harshly reflected the actual ways of company owners.

  7. Progressive Magazines (heyday 1901-1903) • McClure’s- sold 75,000 • Collier’s- eventually came to distribute 1 million copies to the American people. • Writers like Ida Tarbell contributed to these presses • Some photographers’ pictures showed up in the magazines. Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis were two of these photographers.

  8. Maria Van Vorst • Wrote expose in a magazine about the horrors of working in a shoe factory in 1903. • Fingernails of the women who worked there “literally rotted off” when they were forced to put their hands in trenchant dye.

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