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Author Greeson, Jennifer Rae.

Title Our South [electronic resource] : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / Jennifer Rae Greeson.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 356 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History.
Southern States -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674024281 (alk. paper)
9780674059351 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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