Title Our South : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / Jennifer Rae Greeson.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : magnet South -- Nationalization/The Plantation South -- The problem of the plantation -- Putting the colonial past in its place -- Domestic possession and the imperial impulse -- The enemy within -- Industrialization and expansion/The slave South -- Underwriting free labor and free soil -- American universal geography -- Dark satanic fields -- The masterwork of national literature -- The question of empire/The Reconstruction South -- Abandoned lands and exceptional empire -- The glory of disaster -- Internal islands and the American scene, 1898-1905.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.
Subject	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
	Southern States -- In literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Nationalism in literature.
	Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
	Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
	National characteristics, American, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033350
	Nationalism and literature. (OCoLC)fst01033884
	Nationalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033899
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Greeson, Jennifer Rae. Our South. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010 9780674024281 (DLC) 2010019126 (OCoLC)555658585
ISBN	9780674059351 (electronic bk.)
	0674059352 (electronic bk.)

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