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008 100507s2010 mauab b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS261$b.G74 2010
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100 1 $aGreeson, Jennifer Rae.
245 10 $aOur South :$bgeographic fantasy and the rise of national literature /$cJennifer Rae Greeson.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. ;$aLondon, England :$bHarvard University Press,$c2010.
300 $ax, 356 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
520 8 $aThis work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xIn literature.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 0 $aNationalism in literature.
650 0 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory.