Unwelcome voices : subversive fiction in the Antebellum South / Paul Christian Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Literature and history.

History.

Literature and society.

Southern States.

Literature and society--Southern States--History--19th century.

Literature and history--Southern States--History--19th century.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American.

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Southern States--In literature.

Plantation life in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2005]

Contents:

Antebellum Southern literature and twentieth-century criticism

The progressive beginnings of Southern historical romance : James Heath's Edge-hill

Copying what the master had written : Frederick Douglass's romance of the heroic slave

Monsters in the Old South : Edgar Allan Poe's horror fiction as anti-romance

Resisting the romance : genre struggle in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn

Revising the romantic plantation : E.D.E.N. Southworth's Abolitionist project.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.

ISBN:

1572333278

OCLC:

56733497