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Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Full title: Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
ISBN: 9780826517562
ISBN 10: 0826517560
Authors: Wells, Jeremy
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Num. pages: 264
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2011

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Synopsis

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. Jeremy Wells. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 211-228) And Index.