LEADER 04270nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910460210903321 005 20211018171804.0 010 $a0-674-05935-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081219 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471900 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338072 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471900 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429227 035 $a(PQKB)11012681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300909 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300909 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456076 035 $a(OCoLC)709593060 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081219 100 $a20100507d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur South$b[electronic resource] $egeographic fantasy and the rise of national literature /$fJennifer Rae Greeson 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (x, 356 p. )$cill., maps 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-02428-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 8 $aThis work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.$bSince the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, different from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, plantation production, and heterogeneous population once defined the New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. literature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order. Our South tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in U.S. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, Jennifer Rae Greeson demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to the expanding and evolving idea of the nation. Claiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant "other," Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domesticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underdeveloped regions both within our borders and beyond. Our South has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power in the United States. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aSouthern States$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory. 676 $a810.9/35875 700 $aGreeson$b Jennifer Rae$01035388 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460210903321 996 $aOur South$92455083 997 $aUNINA