Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
- ISBN-10
- 0817315802
- ISBN-13
- 9780817315801
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-30
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Author
- Ben Railton
Description
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation includes fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature.
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