Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

Argues that in the years after Reconstruction, America's identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation's history. Benjamin Railton argues that the US 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 those competing visions.

About the author

Ben Railton is an assistant professor of American and Ethnic Literature at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Railton, Benjamin A. Railton
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780817357924
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5792-4
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; Studies in American Literary Realism & Naturalism (Paperback); Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General