Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation
Subtitle: American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
By: Ben Railton
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780817315801
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index
Table of contents: title: "He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before" : dialect slavery, and the race question; title: "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; title: "That's the worst of being a woman. What you go through can't be told" : Private histories, public voices, and the woman question; title: "Quite the southern version" : the lure of alternative voices and histories of the southern question; title: "The way they talked in New Orleans in those days" : voice and history in and on The grandissimes