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1 online resource (xii, 312 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-304) and index. |
| Contents |
"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. |
| Summary |
In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Ben Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America's identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation's history. Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation 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 of the most revealing glimpses into the nature of. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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19th century |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Littérature américaine -- 1870-1914 -- Thèmes, motifs. |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Railton, Ben, 1977- Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007 9780817315801 0817315802 (DLC) 2007005022 (OCoLC)83608640 |
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9780817380205 (electronic book) |
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0817380205 (electronic book) |
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9780817315801 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817315802 (alkaline paper) |
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