TY - BOOK AU - Railton,Ben ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation: American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 T2 - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism AV - PS214 .R35 2007eb U1 - 820.9/358 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - History KW - Sex role in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10387619 ER -