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Author:

Wells, Jeremy, 1971-

Title:

Romances of the white man's burden : race, empire, and the plantation in American literature, 1880-1936 / Jeremy Wells.

Publisher:

Vanderbilt University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

238 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century.
Southern States--Intellectual life--20th century.
Southern States--In literature.
Race in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Imperialism in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : white southern men and the burden of empire -- Uncle Remus's empire -- "The Old South under new conditions" : Henry W. Grady, Thomas Nelson Page, and new southern manhood -- Manifest destinies, invisible empires : Thomas Dixon's imperial fantasies -- "White babies ... struggling": William Faulkner and the white man's burden -- Conclusion : plantation nationhood and the myth of southern otherness.

ISBN:

0826517560 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
9780826517562 (cloth edition : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)649417981

LCCN:

2010028334

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)