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Author Railton, Ben, 1977-

Title Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation [electronic resource] : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / Ben Railton.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.

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Description xii, 312 p.
Series Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780817315801 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817315802 (alk. paper)

 
    
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