Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation [electronic resource] : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / Ben Railton.
By: Railton, Ben.
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BookSeries: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism: Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007Description: xii, 312 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/358 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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