Our South : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / / Jennifer Rae Greeson.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 356 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.