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The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress : Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression /
In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. While other studies address the familial and labor issues that...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. While other studies address the familial and labor issues that challenged female literary characters during the 1930s, Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruistic maternal figures and destructive sexual deviants. |
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| Description: | "Eugenics and Politics: Unlikely Unions and the Stereotyping of the Southern Poor White Woman -- Questioning the Eugenic Agenda: Faulkner, Caldwell, and Steinbeck Three Responses to America's "Social Responsibility"--Making the Eugenic "Myth" a Reality: The Fictionalizing of Depression-Era Documentary Work -- Up from Eugenics: The Gastonia Novels and the Redefining of the Southern Poor White Woman." |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807144466 |