Slavery ordained by God in the domestic sentimental novel of the nineteenth-century South
By: Diane N. Capitani.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780739112328; 9780739133880
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Slavery and the church -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fiction -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects; Slavery in literature; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The function of women writers in American history; title: The cult of true womanhood and the southern domestic novel; title: The 19th century southern woman and the domestic novel; title: Slavery defended from scripture: influences in the southern novel; title: Southern women writers: refuting the "Northern hussy" and defending slavery from scripture; title: Male voices in southern domestic fiction: politics as usual; title: Enlightening blighted Africa; title: Conclusion: a monstrous system.