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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
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
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
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.
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
By Ben Railton
University of Alabama Press
Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
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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