| Description |
x, 533 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The American South series |
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American South series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Haunted bodies : rethinking the South through gender / Susan V. Donaldson and Anne Goodwyn Jones -- Mask of obedience : male slave psychology in the Old South / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- African-American women and their pursuit of rights through eighteenth-century Spanish texts / Jane Landers -- Poe and gentry Virginia : provincial gentleman, textual aristocrat, man of the crowd / David Leverenz -- Flight down the middle walk : Mary Chestnut and the forms of observance / Michael O'Brien -- Reconstructing southern manhood : race, sentimentality, and camp in the plantation myth / Caroline Gebhard -- Race, violence, and manhood : the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's The heroic slave / Richard Yarborough -- Santa Claus ain't a real man : incidents and gender / Anne Bradford Warner -- Engendered in the South : blood and irony in Douglass and Jacobs / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- Domesticity in Dixie : the plantation novel and Uncle Tom's cabin / Lucinda H. MacKethan -- Dining room door swings both ways : food, race, and domestic space in the nineteenth-century South / Mary Titus -- Writing sickness : a southern woman's diary of cares / Steven M. Stowe -- Beyond the hummingbird : southern women writers and the southern gargantua / Patricia Yaeger -- Biting the hand that writes you : southern African-American folk narrative and the place of women in Their eyes were watching God / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Around, behind, above, below men : Ratliff's buggies and the homosocial in Yoknapatawpha / Noel Polk -- Freedom, manhood, and white male tradition in 1970s southern rock music / Ted Ownby -- Reading family matters / Deborah E. McDowell -- Nonfelicitous space and survivor discourse : reading the incest story in southern women's fiction / Minrose Gwin -- True happenings of my life : reading the southern women autobiographers / Peggy W. Prenshaw -- Slavery, race, and the figure of the tragic Mulatta; or the ghost of southern history in the writing of African-American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Gender, race, and Allen Tate's profession of letters in the South / Susan V. Donaldson. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Southern States.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Southern States -- Historiography.
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Southern States -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Anne Goodwyn.
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Donaldson, Susan Van D'Elden, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0813917255 cloth alkaline paper |
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0813917263 paper alkaline paper |
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