Stories with a moral
Subtitle: literature and society in nineteenth-century Georgia
By: Michael E. Price.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: American literature -- Georgia -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Didactic literature, American -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Georgia.; Ethics in literature.; Georgia -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; Georgia -- Moral conditions.; Georgia -- In literature.
Description: "Michael E. Price examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey of King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image of plantation economy and social structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance of literature as a mode of ideological communication.

Even more significant, the book shows how the writing of one century shaped the development of social practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-378) and index.