Unwelcome voices
Subtitle: subversive fiction in the Antebellum South
By: Paul Christian Jones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and history -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism; Plantation life in literature; Slavery in literature; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antebellum Southern literature and twentieth-century criticism; title: The progressive beginnings of Southern historical romance : James Heath's Edge-hill; title: Copying what the master had written : Frederick Douglass's romance of the heroic slave; title: Monsters in the Old South : Edgar Allan Poe's horror fiction as anti-romance; title: Resisting the romance : genre struggle in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn; title: Revising the romantic plantation : E.D.E.N. Southworth's Abolitionist project.