American literature in context from 1865 to 1929

the long version

"This book places major literary works within the context of the topics that engaged a great number of American writers in the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression. Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual re-enslavement of African-Americans after Reconstruction, and radical social movements. The book draws on a range of documents from magazine and newspaper accounts to government reports and important non-fiction and presents a contemporary history as writers might have understood it as they were writing, not as historians have interpreted it."--From publisher website.