Railton, Ben, 1977-

Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / [electronic resource] : Ben Railton. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007. - xii, 312 p. - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism . - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index.

"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.


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2013.
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American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.


Electronic books.

PS214 / .R35 2007eb

820.9/358

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