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050	0	0	_aPS261 _b.T73 1995
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100	1		_aTracy, Susan Jean, _d1947- _9150193
245	1	0	_aIn the master's eye : _brepresentations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature / _cSusan J. Tracy.
260			_aAmherst : _bUniversity of Massachusetts Press, _cc1995.
300			_aix, 307 p. ; _c25 cm.
505	0		_a1. The Antebellum South -- 2. The Production of Southern Literature -- 3. The Form of Southern Literature -- 4. The Genesis of the "Plantation Novel" -- 5. Representing Southern Women's Lives -- 6. Unmarried Women: The "Belle," Passive Sufferer versus Spirited Woman -- 7. Unmarried Women: The "Spinster" and the "Fallen Woman" -- 8. Married Woman: Mothers -- 9. Widows -- 10. Slavery: The "Patriarchal" Institution -- 11. The Master-Slave Relationship: Individual Portraits of Slaves -- 12. The Problem of Class in Southern Society and Southern Literature -- 13. Representations of Poor Whites -- 14. The Problem of the Yeoman Farmer.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-296) and index.
520			_aThis book explores the way in which literature can be used to reinforce social power. Through rigorous readings of a series of antebellum plantation novels, Susan J. Tracy shows how the narrative strategies employed by proslavery Southern writers served to justify and perpetuate the oppression of women, blacks, and poor whites. Tracy focuses on the historical romances of six authors: George Tucker, James Ewell Heath, William Alexander Caruthers, John Pendleton Kennedy, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, and William Gilmore Simms. Using variations on a recurring plot - in which a young planter/hero rescues a planter's daughter from an "enemy" of her class - each of these novelists reinforced an idealized vision of a Southern civilization based on male superiority, white supremacy, and class inequality.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _9150198
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xMale authors _xHistory and criticism. _9150199
651		0	_aSouthern States _xIntellectual life. _9150200
650		0	_aWorking class whites in literature. _9150201
651		0	_aSouthern States _xIn literature. _9150202
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature. _9150203
650		0	_aSocial classes in literature. _9150204
650		0	_aPatriarchy in literature. _96795
650		0	_aPoor whites in literature. _9150205
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