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Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876 - 1893 / Ben Railton

Railton, Ben, 1977-

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : Univ. of Alabama Press, 2007

XII, 312 S.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

eb 20240324 ; 2 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

0-8173-1580-2 (alk. paper); 978-0-8173-1580-1 (cloth : alk. paper)

2007005022

OCoLC: 263718605     

HT 1691      Ähnliche Literatur

PS214

820.9/358 ; 820.9358

Basisklassifikation: 18.06 (Angloamerikanische Literatur) ; 17.91 (Literatursoziologie) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen) ; 17.71 (Literaturgeschichte)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26; 6,33

*USA ; Literatur ; Gesellschaft <Motiv> ; Rasse <Motiv> ; Erotik <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1876-1893     Zum Register

LOC-SH: 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 literature ; American literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century ; National characteristics, American, in literature ; Literature and society -- History -- 19th century -- United States ; Sex role in literature ; Race in literature

"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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