Our South
Subtitle: geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature
By: Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780674024281
Subjects: History and criticism; Nationalism in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Nationalism and literature; In literature; American literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : magnet South; title: Nationalization/The Plantation South; title: The problem of the plantation; title: Putting the colonial past in its place; title: Domestic possession and the imperial impulse; title: The enemy within; title: Industrialization and expansion/The slave South; title: Underwriting free labor and free soil; title: American universal geography; title: Dark satanic fields; title: The masterwork of national literature; title: The question of empire/The Reconstruction South; title: Abandoned lands and exceptional empire; title: The glory of disaster; title: Internal islands and the American scene, 1898-1905.