Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / [electronic resource] :
Ben Railton.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.
- xii, 312 p.
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism .
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. .
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century National characteristics, American, in literature. Literature and society--History--United States--19th century. Sex role in literature. Race in literature.