Literary Galleries

The galleries are a means of gaining additional information and insight into specific aspects of the PBO project. These galleries highlight prominent authors, important literary topics, and single titles that proved popular during the publishers' bindings era. The galleries are useful not only in learning more about the PBO project itself and the types of materials within the PBO virtual collection, but also in learning about aspects of 19th- and early 20th-c. history, life, and culture. The galleries and accompanying scholarly material can be incorporated in lesson plans and can serve as a springboard or inspiration for further research in a specific area. If you have a suggestion about a gallery you would like to see, please contact us.

The Artistic Collaboration between Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) & Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904)	Booker T. Washington: Author, Educator, Advocate	Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part I: Thomas Nelson Page's Literature of the "Lost Cause"
Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Ellen Glasgow' s Feminist Approach to the "Old South"	Lafcadio Hearn: 19th-Century World Citizen	Louisa May Alcott: Little Woman, Big Pen
"Moonlight and Magnolias": History and Literature in the Big Easy	"The Most Written About War in History": The Civil War in Fact and Fiction	Black and White: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Race in Post-Civil War Literature
Son of a Comet, Star of the West: The Life and Literature of “Mark Twain”	Southern Writers and Local Color: A Regional Twist on a National Trend	True Tales of Bondage and Freedom: Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A 19th-Century Bestseller	Publishers' Bindings from the Wade Hall Collection of Southern History and Culture	Onoto Watanna: Turning Japanese (gallery and vodcast lecture)