The South Atlantic Quarterly
Author | : John Spencer Bassett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865
Author | : Eric J. Sundquist |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1578068630 |
A revealing juxtaposition of the literatures of Manifest Destiny and a dream deferred
Truthful Pictures
Author | : Diane N. Capitani |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739112328 |
Truthful Pictures examines novels and sermons written in the antebellum South, in particular those written after the 1851 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It begins with a historical overview of the function of women writers in American literature in order to help locate sentimental fiction within its historical context by analyzing the works of Southern female authors such as Caroline Hentz and Mary H. Eastman. Though they followed in Harriet Beecher Stowe's footsteps, authors like Hentz and Eastman used their voices in conjunction with Christian ideology to support slavery. The text then explores how Holy Scripture was perverted in Southern sermons by pulpit leaders such as Thorton Stringfellow and Alexander McCaine in order to allow the continued enslavement of one group by another, using religion to defend white partriarchy as the normal human way of life. By examining antebellum sermons and writings and their influence on sentimental novels, Truthful Pictures shows how religious texts reinforced political ideologies in the wake of increasing racial tensions between the North and the South. Book jacket.
The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
Author | : Ezra Tawil |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107048761 |
This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The Southern Plantation
Author | : Francis Pendleton Gaines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Outlines the conception of the old plantation in literature and song and makes an analysis of it in comparison to the plantation as it actually existed.
Watching Slavery
Author | : Joe Lockard |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780820495415 |
How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry, and legal texts to analyze direct and indirect encounters with slavery in the antebellum United States. It discusses the rhetorical politics of British and American, and black and white, observations of slavery. The discussion raises critical questions about the role of witness and its link with political action, both in antebellum and contemporary America.