Romances of the white man's burden [electronic resource] : race, empire, and the plantation in American literature, 1880-1936 / Jeremy Wells.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (238 p. )Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826517586
- Imperialism in literature
- Plantation life in literature
- Race in literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Southern States -- In literature
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- 813/.509355 22
- PS261 .W45 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : white southern men and the burden of empire -- Uncle Remus's empire -- "The Old South under new conditions" : Henry W. Grady, Thomas Nelson Page, and new southern manhood -- Manifest destinies, invisible empires : Thomas Dixon's imperial fantasies -- "White babies ... struggling": William Faulkner and the white man's burden -- Conclusion : plantation nationhood and the myth of southern otherness.
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