Author: Maria Jane M'IntoshPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The lofty and the lowly; or, Good in all, and none all good
Author: Maria Jane M'IntoshThe Lofty and the Lowly
Author: Maria Jane McIntoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenæum
Author: Eclectic Magazine
Author: The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author: Cavaliers and Economists
Author: Katharine A. BurnettPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717162X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Offering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine A. Burnett’s Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860 examines how popular modes of literary production in the South emerged in tandem with the region’s economic modernization. In a series of deeply historicized readings, Burnett positions southern literary form and genre as existing in dialogue with the plantation economy’s evolving position in the transatlantic market before the Civil War. The antebellum southern economy comprised part of a global network of international commerce driven by a version of laissez-faire liberal capitalism that championed unrestricted trade and individual freedom to pursue profit. Yet the economy of the U.S. South consisted of large-scale plantations that used slave labor to cultivate staple crops, including cotton. Each individual plantation functioned as a racially and socially repressive community, a space that seemingly stood apart from the international economic networks that fueled southern capitalism. For writers from the South, fiction became a way to imagine the region as socially and culturally progressive, while still retaining hallmarks of “traditional” southern culture—namely plantation slavery—in the context of a rapidly changing global economy. Burnett excavates an elaborate network of transatlantic literary exchange, operating concurrently with the region’s economic expansion, in which southern writers adopted popular British genres, such as the historical romance and the seduction novel, as models for their own representations of the U.S. South. Each chapter focuses on a different genre, pairing largely under-studied southern texts with well-known British works. Ranging from the humorous sketch to the imperial adventure tale and the social problem novel, Cavaliers and Economists reveals how southern writers like Augusta Jane Evans, Johnson Jones Hooper, Maria McIntosh, William Gilmore Simms, and George Tucker reworked familiar literary forms to reinvent the South through fiction. By considering the intersection of economic history and literary genre, Cavaliers and Economists provides an expansive study of the means by which authors created southern literature in relation to global free market capitalism, showing that, in the process, they renegotiated and rejustified the institution of slavery.
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes AgnewPublisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age
Author: John Holmes AgnewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description