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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460210903321

Autore

Greeson Jennifer Rae

Titolo

Our South [[electronic resource] ] : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / / Jennifer Rae Greeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-674-05935-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 356 p. ) : ill., maps

Disciplina

810.9/35875

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

American literature - Southern States - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Nationalism in literature

Nationalism and literature - United States - History

Electronic books.

Southern States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.