Book cover of 'Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914' by Jay Martin, featuring a black background with red and beige text and decorative red, blue, and beige ribbon motifs.
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The front cover of the book 'Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914' by Jay Martin, published by Prentice-Hall. The cover is a warm beige color with black serif text and decorative flourishes.
A vintage book page with printed black text on an aged, warm tan paper background, photographed flat against a white background.
back coverwith a dark brown background, featuring a quote by Jay Martin and the publisher text 'Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey' at the bottom.
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Book cover of 'Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914' by Jay Martin, featuring a black background with red and beige text and decorative red, blue, and beige ribbon motifs.A photographed interior page of a printed book or publication, showing black text on an off-white page with a curved fold line near the top.The front cover of the book 'Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914' by Jay Martin, published by Prentice-Hall. The cover is a warm beige color with black serif text and decorative flourishes.A vintage book page with printed black text on an aged, warm tan paper background, photographed flat against a white background.back coverwith a dark brown background, featuring a quote by Jay Martin and the publisher text 'Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey' at the bottom.

Harvests of Change Jay Martin American Literature 1865-1914 Hardcover Jacket

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Author: Jay Martin
Title: Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865–1914
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Place: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Copyright: 1967
Printing: Third printing
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Page Count: 382
Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket protected in a Brodart cover.

Between the Civil War and World War I, American writers confronted a country being transformed by industrial wealth, expanding cities, scientific discoveries, and shifting beliefs. Jay Martin examines how their fiction and poetry gave expression to those changes—and helped Americans understand them.

Henry James, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Theodore Dreiser, and Stephen Crane figure alongside less familiar writers. Martin connects their work to the competing attractions of Europe and the American West, the challenges of Darwinism, and the tensions between inherited values and modern experience.

Rather than treating literature as a succession of authors and books, Harvests of Change places writing within the public life of its time. The original jacket’s red, blue, and black design gives this scholarly volume a particularly attractive period presentation.