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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lancaster, Ashley Craig, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Blanches dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Women, White, in literature.
Rural poor in literature.
Literature and society.
Literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature and society > Southern States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States.
Southern States > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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