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