TY - BOOK ID - 3120732 TI - Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 PY - 2007 VL - *3 SN - 0817315802 9780817315801 0817357920 0817380205 9780817380205 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - American national characteristics in literature KW - Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur KW - Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925. The Grandissimes KW - Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature KW - National characteristics [American ] in literature KW - Race dans la littérature KW - Race in literature KW - Ras in de literatuur KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur KW - Sex role in literature KW - Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur KW - American literature KW - Literature and society KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3120732 AB - Fables 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 ER -