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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.