Charles Testut's Le vieux Salomon
Subtitle: race, religion, socialism, and freemasonry
By: Sheri Lyn Abel.
Series: After the empire
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780739123706; 9780739138328
Subjects: Testut, Charles, -- 1819-1892; French-American literature -- Louisiana -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Race relations in literature; Slavery in literature; Religion in literature; Freemasonry in literature; Louisiana -- In literature
Other titles: Vieux Salomon
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social disruption: Testut and French socialism; title: "La plus grande et la plus belle des sociétés humaines": Freemasonry and Le vieux Salomon; title: "The stupid aristocracy of skin": The black persona in Le vieux Salomon; title: Local color and the literary imagination: Uncle Tom's cabin and Le vieux Salomon.