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The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Edited by Andrew J. Ball
University of Alabama Press
The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context
Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrations
Unguessed Kinships
Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
By Steven Frye
University of Alabama Press
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists
Jack London and the Sea
By Anita Duneer
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
University of Alabama Press
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities
The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar
University of Alabama Press
These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals
Kitchen Economics
Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy
University of Alabama Press
An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought
Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
University of Alabama Press
The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection
Chesnutt and Realism
A Study of the Novels
By Ryan Simmons
University of Alabama Press
Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
University of Alabama Press
Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism and Realism—have come to be understood and defined
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America
Edited by Jill Annette Bergman; Introduction by Jill Annette Bergman
University of Alabama Press
A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place
Gears and God
Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America
University of Alabama Press
A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Edited by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe; Introduction by Henry B. Wonham; Other primary creator Lawrence Howe
University of Alabama Press
Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
University of Alabama Press
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
A Man's Game
Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism
By John Dudley
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism