LEADER 03459nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910451684603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8020-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479932 035 $a(EBL)438216 035 $a(OCoLC)183297118 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129896 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129122 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129896 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080683 035 $a(PQKB)10649314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438216 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10387619 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479932 100 $a20070202d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContesting the past, reconstructing the nation$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 /$fBen Railton 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-5792-0 311 $a0-8173-1580-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aFables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Benjamin Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America's identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation's history. He argues that the United States moved toward unifying and univocal historical narratives in the years between the Centennial and Columbian Expositions, that ongoing social conflict provided sites for complications of those narratives, and that works of historical literature offer some 410 0$aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aRace in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a820.9/358 700 $aRailton$b Ben$f1977-$01026435 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451684603321 996 $aContesting the past, reconstructing the nation$92441327 997 $aUNINA