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  • Competing Voices: Literary Texts and the Battle for Meaning in Gilded Age Culture Ben Railton. Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876–1893. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii + 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8173-1580-2.

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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2009), 8:145-147 Cambridge University Press
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doi:10.1017/S1537781400001055

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Competing Voices: Literary Texts and the Battle for Meaning in Gilded Age Culture

Ben Railton. Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876–1893. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii + 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8173-1580-2.

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Kevin B. Sheets is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Cortland and project director for a Teaching American History grant. His 2005 article in the. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era examined the early history of the Loeb Classical Library. His current research investigates Progressive Era pedagogical practices in both Latin and the arts.