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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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Sounding Real

Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

University of Alabama Press

Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Fighting Words

Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism

University of Alabama Press

An entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters

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Traces of Gold

California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature

University of Alabama Press

Artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West
 

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The American Counterfeit

Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture

University of Alabama Press

Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century

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Willa Cather and Material Culture

Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World

Edited by Janis P. Stout
University of Alabama Press

A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.

Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times.

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Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

University of Alabama Press

This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.

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The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

University of Alabama Press

An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history.American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. The Color of Democracy in Women’s Regional Writing enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of the 19th century. Jean Griffith presents the innovative view that regional writing provided Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already closely associated with women readers and writers.Griffith provides new readings of texts by these authors; she places them alongside the works of their contemporaries, including William Faulkner and Langston Hughes, to show regionalism’s responses to the debate over who was capable of democratic participation and reading regionalism’s changing mediations between natives and strangers as reflections of the changing face of democracy.This insightful work enriches the current debate about whether regionalism critiques hierarchies or participates in nationalist and racist agendas and will be of great interest to those invested in regional writing or the works of these significant authors.

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Mainly the Truth

Interviews with Mark Twain

University of Alabama Press
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Mark Twain on the Move

A Travel Reader

University of Alabama Press
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Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism

The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

University of Alabama Press
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Mark Twain in the Margins

The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

University of Alabama Press

Fulton's examination of Twain's marginalia demonstrates that the "unlettered" Twain approached the writing of his novels with careful research and calculated design.

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Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors

Edith Wharton and Material Culture

Edited by Gary Totten
University of Alabama Press
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Stephen Crane Remembered

Edited by Paul Sorrentino
University of Alabama Press

Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances

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A Question of Character

Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912

University of Alabama Press

Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century America.

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Mark Twain and Orion Clemens

Brothers, Partners, Strangers

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

One became America’s greatest writer. The other died in obscurity and failure. As brothers, they shaped each other's lives and work

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Conscience and Purpose

Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather

University of Alabama Press

Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others.

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Our Sisters' Keepers

Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

University of Alabama Press

Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries

Literary and Intellectual Contexts

University of Alabama Press

Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era

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