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A movement of US writers and journalists
about 1880-1914 who aimed to expose
political, commercial, and corporate
corruption, and record frankly the age of
industrialism, urban poverty and degradation,
unbridled business trusts, and conspicuous
consumption. Novelists included Frank Norris,
Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and Upton
Sinclair. Main figures of the earlier period
include Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry George
(Progress and Poverty 1879), and Henry
Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903). Later, with the
growth of journals like McClure's Magazine,
the movement included Lincoln Steffens
(1866-1936) (The Shame of the Cities 1904),
Ida M Tarbell, and Thorstein Veblen (The
Theory of the Leisure Class 1904). Also
associated with the Progressive movement in
politics, it gave to both US literature and
journalism a critical role it was to
maintain.