Take for example Sumner’s writing, What Our Boys Are Reading. He preaches to middle class parents on how they have failed to take note on what their children are reading. Instead of reading the classical material that will sharpen their intellect, they are reading periodicals and magazines that are bound to bring degradation to society. When speaking about the periodicals, Sumner says, “It is impossible, however, that so much corr

Theodore Roosevelt was a bit different from Sumner and Stevens, however. He wasn’t focused on how the country was going wrong; he was more focused on making a strong nation. He pushed for men to do their duty, and for women to stay in the kitchen and be homemakers. His beliefs were still based on Victorian ideals, but at the same time he added some new ideas. He wanted his countrymen to be brutes. He encouraged them to be aggressive, strong and very self empowered.

Tarzan of the Apes also gives a good idea of views of women of the time. Jane and Esmerelda would be considered Roosevelt’s ideals of women- Jane more so than Esmerelda. Jane doesn’t swoon in the face of danger, but stands strong. Both are still good examples of how women at that time were expected to be dependent upon men to fight in their defense and that they were expected to stand beside their men.

He shows a belief in culture losing its interest in classical writing and taking an interest in newer tales. Stevens has the same view as Sumner does when it comes to this upcoming new media. “The Young American hears too often only a cheap and bastard wit, no true kin to fun; let us start him early with, The Rose and the Ring, and The Peterkin Papers, and the old-world caustic wisdom of Aesop.”(48 Stevens). The difference between Stevens and Sumner is that Stevens sees the new styles of literature as a reflection of society, whereas Sumner sees the literature as an effect on society. He sees the people in need of something else, something to entertain them, and give them a happier existence.

Some authors of the early twentieth century had mostly Victorian views because of their up bringings, and thus had about the same opinions as each other. They most likely wo

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