Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult

by Susan Gillman and Professor Susan Gillman

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The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre--the race melodrama--and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226293904

ISBN13:9780226293905

Release Date:September 2003

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences

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