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

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Label

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

Title remainder

American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

Statement of responsibility

Ben Railton

Creator

• Railton, Ben, 1977-

Subject

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

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Action

digitized

Dewey number

820.9/358

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism