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Author:

Greeson, Jennifer Rae.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0674024281 (alk. paper)
9780674024281 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)555658585

LCCN:

2010019126

Locations:

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

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)