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The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894

University of Alabama Press

The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career

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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
 

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Unguessed Kinships

Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy

University of Alabama Press

The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists

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Jack London and the Sea

University of Alabama Press

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer

 

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Haunting Realities

Naturalist Gothic and American Realism

Edited by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden; Introduction by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden
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

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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
 

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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

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Mark Twain

The Complete Interviews

University of Alabama Press

The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection
 

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Chesnutt and Realism

A Study of the Novels

University of Alabama Press

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism
 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
 

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A Man's Game

Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism

University of Alabama Press

Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism

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Mark Twain at Home

How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction

University of Alabama Press

Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work

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Canons by Consensus

Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

By Joseph Csicsila; Foreword by Tom Quirk
University of Alabama Press

The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last century

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Continuing Bonds with the Dead

Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors

University of Alabama Press

Continuing Bonds with the Dead explores the redemptive literary achievements of five nineteenth-century American authors who lost a son or daughter. In it, Harold K. Bush illuminates America’s evolving cultural attitudes about death and grief.

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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation

American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

University of Alabama Press

Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
 

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Artistic Liberties

American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905

University of Alabama Press

A landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism
 

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