This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies mat

"This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies ma

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that u

The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free'