02303nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10387619 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070202s2007 alu sb 001 0 eng 2007005022 9780817315801 (cloth : alk. paper) 0817315802 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)183297118 n-us--- PS214 .R35 2007eb 820.9/358 22 Railton, Ben, 1977- Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation [electronic resource] : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / Ben Railton. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 312 p. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10387619 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 198604 198604