Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 225 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "In Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South, Paul Christian Jones argues that there was a subversive group of voices that dared challenge cherished southern traditions and raised questions about the issues facing the South in the years leading up to the Civil War, including slavery, democracy, and women's rights." "Unwelcome Voices represents a major turning point in the study of the literature of the antebellum South. It recognizes those authors who produced the counterweight to the writing meant to prop up the region's elite class and slaveholding way of life."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Plantation life in literature
2. American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
3. Slavery in literature
4. Literature and society > Southern States > History > 19th century
5. Historical fiction, American > History and criticism
6. Literature and history > Southern States > History > 19th century
7. Southern States > Intellectual life
8. American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
9. Southern States > In literature

Contents

1. 1. Antebellum southern literature and twentieth-century criticism -- 2. The progressive beginnings of southern historical romance : James Heath's Edge-Hill -- 3. Copying what the master had written : Frederick Douglass's romance of the heroic slave -- 4. Monsters in the old south : Edgar Allan Poe's horror fiction as anti-romance -- 5. Resisting the romance : genre struggle in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn -- 6. Revising the romantic plantation : E.D.E.N. Southworth's abolitionist project -- Conclusion : uncovering the pluralist south.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.