Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

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Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

Title:

Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

Author:

Railton, Ben, 1977-

Personal Author:

Railton, Ben, 1977-

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

xii, 312 p.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.

Contents:

"He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before" : dialect slavery, and the race question -- "If we had known how to write, we would have put all these things down and they would not have been forgotten" : silenced voices, forgotten, histories, and the Indian question -- "That's the worst of being a woman. What you go through can't be told" : Private histories, public voices, and the woman question -- "Quite the southern version" : the lure of alternative voices and histories of the southern question -- "The way they talked in New Orleans in those days" : voice and history in and on the grandissimes.

Subject Term:

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Sex role in literature.

Race in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Corporate Author:

ProQuest (Firm)

Electronic Access:

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