Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 /
Railton, Ben,1977-
Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,
c2007.
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.
American literature
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.