03425nam 2200649 a 450 991077837880332120200520144314.00-8173-8020-5(CKB)1000000000479932(EBL)438216(OCoLC)183297118(SSID)ssj0000129896(PQKBManifestationID)11129122(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129896(PQKBWorkID)10080683(PQKB)10649314(MdBmJHUP)muse8902(Au-PeEL)EBL438216(CaPaEBR)ebr10387619(MiAaPQ)EBC438216(EXLCZ)99100000000047993220070202d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContesting the past, reconstructing the nation[electronic resource] American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 /Ben RailtonTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20071 online resource (327 p.)Studies in American literary realism and naturalismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-5792-0 0-8173-1580-2 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.Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Benjamin Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America's identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation's history. He argues that the United States moved toward unifying and univocal historical narratives in the years between the Centennial and Columbian Expositions, that ongoing social conflict provided sites for complications of those narratives, and that works of historical literature offer some Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centurySex role in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Literature and societyHistorySex role in literature.Race in literature.820.9/358Railton Ben1977-1575724MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778378803321Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation3852899UNINA