In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature /

Main Author: Tracy, Susan Jean, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • The antebellum South
  • The production of Southern literature
  • The form of Southern literature
  • The genesis of the "Plantation novel"
  • Representing Southern women's lives
  • Unmarried women: the "Belle," passive sufferer versus spirited woman
  • Unmarried women: the "Spinster" and the "Fallen woman"
  • Married woman: mothers
  • Widows
  • Slavery: the "Patriarchal" institution
  • The master-slave relationship: individual portraits of slaves
  • The problem of class in Southern society and Southern literature
  • Representations of poor whites
  • The problem of the yeoman farmer.