TY - BOOK AU - Wells,Jeremy ED - Project Muse. TI - Romances of the white man's burden: race, empire, and the plantation in American literature, 1880-1936 SN - 9780826517586 AV - PS261 .W45 2011 U1 - 813/.509355 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Nashville PB - Vanderbilt University Press KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Plantation life in literature KW - Race in literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - American literature KW - Southern States KW - In literature KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826517586/ ER -