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Author:

Lancaster, Ashley Craig, 1979-

Title:

The angelic mother and the predatory seductress : poor white women in Southern literature of the Great Depression / Ashley Craig Lancaster.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 225 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
Women, White, in literature.
Rural poor in literature.
Literature and society--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--In literature.

Notes:

"Eugenics and Politics: Unlikely Unions and the Stereotyping of the Southern Poor White Woman -- Questioning the Eugenic Agenda: Faulkner, Caldwell, and Steinbeck Three Responses to America's "Social Responsibility" -- Making the Eugenic "Myth" a Reality: The Fictionalizing of Depression-Era Documentary Work -- Up from Eugenics: The Gastonia Novels and the Redefining of the Southern Poor White Woman." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Eugenics and politics: unlikely unions and the stereotyping of the Southern poor white woman -- Questioning the eugenic agenda: Faulkner, Caldwell, and Steinbeck: three responses to America's "social responsibility" -- Making the eugenic "myth" a reality: the fictionalizing of Depression-era documentary work -- Up from eugenics: the Gastonia novels and the redefining of the Southern poor white woman.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807144487 (mobi)
9780807144480 (mobi)
0807144479 (epub)
9780807144473 (epub)
0807144460 (pdf)
9780807144466 (pdf)
0807144452 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807144459 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)760068632

LCCN:

2011043187

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)