Truthful pictures : slavery ordained by God in the domestic sentimental novel of the nineteenth-century South /
Capitani, Diane N.,1943-
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : Lexington Books,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144) and index.
The function of women writers in American history -- The cult of true womanhood and the southern domestic novel -- The nineteenth-century southern woman and the domestic novel -- Slavery defended from Scripture: influences in the southern novel -- Southern women writers: refuting the "Northern hussy" and defending slavery from Scriptures -- Male voices in southern domestic fiction: politics as usual -- Enlightening blighted Africa -- Conclusion: a monstrous system.
American fiction
Slavery
American fiction
Slavery
Slavery and the church
Fiction
Slavery in literature.