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Romances of the white man's burden race, empire, and the plantation in American literature, 1880-1936
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Romances of the white man's burden [electronic resource] : race, empire, and the plantation in American literature, 1880-1936 / Jeremy Wells.
ISBN
9780826517586
0826517560
9780826517562 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
Published
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (238 p. )
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Literature Collection.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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