Whitewashing America : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / Bridget T. Heneghan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heneghan, Bridget T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

Race in literature.

American literature--White authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Material culture--United States--History--19th century.

Material culture.

Human skin color in literature.

Material culture in literature.

Segregation in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Racism in literature.

White in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary criticism -- American history --> Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of ""the good things in life."" Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity. From the Revolutionary War until the Civil War, American consumers increasingly sought white-colored goods. Whites prefe

Contents:

The pot calling the kettle : white goods and the construction of race in antebellum America

Living on white bread : class considerations and the refinement of whiteness

Unmentionable things unmentioned : constructing femininity with white things

See Spot run : white things in the rhetoric of racial, moral, and hygienic purity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781283851015

1283851016

9781604730463

1604730463

9781423731986

1423731980

OCLC:

823380994

Publisher Number:

heb40099 hdl