Our South geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / [electronic resource] :
Jennifer Rae Greeson.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
- x, 356 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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American literature--History and criticism. American literature--History and criticism.--Southern States National characteristics, American, in literature. Nationalism in literature. Nationalism and literature--History.--United States