The spread of mass culture
To summerize the first part talks about mass circulation of newspapers an it says by 1898 the circulation of the New York World an the New York Morning Journal reached a high of one million copies a day in 1898. Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World in 1883. He put out popular inovations such as the large sunday edition, comics,sports, and women's news. His paper emphasized sin, sex, and sesation to pass his main competiter
William Randolph Hearst. William Randolph Hearst was the one who purchased the New York Morning Journal in 1895. He already owned the San Fransico Examiner tried to out do Pulitzer by filling the journal with outrageous tales of personal scandels, cruelty an hypnotism. The uprising of their circulation war drove both papers to sensational news coverage.
The second part talks about promoting fine arts by the 1900's at least 1 art gallery was in every large city. American artists including Thomas Eakins started to embrace realism and artistic school that attempted to portray life as it is lived. Thomas studied anatomy w/ medical students an used painstacking geometric perspective in his work. By 1800, Thomas was alson using photograhy to make realistic studies of humans an animals. In the early 20th century Ashcan school of american art was led by thomas's student Robert Henri who painted urban life an working people gritty realism an no frills.
The last part talks about Popular fiction to summarize it as literacy rates rose scholars debated the role of literature in society, some felt that literature should uplift america's literacy tastes which would be more crime tales an westerns. Some people preferred to read light fiction, such as books sold for more then a dime heance the name "dime novels." Dime novels usually told glorified adventure tales of the west featured heroes like Edward Wheelers Deadwood Dick.Edward published his first dead wood dick novel in1877 in less than 10 yrs. produced over 30 more copies. Some wanted realistic approach of american life, succesful writers included Sarah Orne Jewett, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, Jack London, an Willa Cather.The most portrayed character less polished than the upper class man an Henery james's and Edith Wharton's novels. Samuel langhorne Clemens the novilist an humorist known as Mark Twain inspired young authors when he declred his independance of "literature an all that bosh." Some of his books have become classics of the american literature like The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, it remains famed for its rendering of life along the mississippi river. Also african americans were excluded from visiting many museums an other white controlled institutions.
I thought this was pretty interesting but not to much because it was like something i already knew.
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