Romances of the white man's burden : race, empire, and the plantation in American literature, 1880-1936 / Jeremy Wells.

Author/creator Wells, Jeremy, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2011.
Descriptionx, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--Southern States. --History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Plantation life--United States. --History.
Plantation life in literature.
African Americans--History. --To 1863.
Race in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Southern States--Intellectual life. --19th century.
Southern States--Intellectual life. --20th century.
Southern States--In literature.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010028334
ISBN9780826517562 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
ISBN0826517560 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40019325191