Romances of the White Man's Burden : Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wells, Jeremy, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Imperialism in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Race in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : white southern men and the burden of empire
  • Uncle Remus's empire
  • "The Old South under new conditions" : Henry W. Grady, Thomas Nelson Page, and new southern manhood
  • Manifest destinies, invisible empires : Thomas Dixon's imperial fantasies
  • "White babies ... struggling": William Faulkner and the white man's burden
  • Conclusion : plantation nationhood and the myth of southern otherness.

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