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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
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.
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
By Ira Wells
University of Alabama Press
An entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Mainly the Truth
Interviews with Mark Twain
Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
University of Alabama Press
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
The Tide of a Great Popular Movement
University of Alabama Press
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.
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
Edith Wharton and Material Culture
Edited by Gary Totten
University of Alabama Press
Stephen Crane Remembered
Edited by Paul Sorrentino
University of Alabama Press
Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances
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.
Mark Twain and Orion Clemens
Brothers, Partners, Strangers
By Philip Ashley Fanning; Foreword by Alan Gribben
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
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.
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Edited by Jill Annette Bergman and Debra Bernardi
University of Alabama Press
Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Edited by Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight
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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