In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature

by Susan J. Tracy

This 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558497978
• ISBN13: 9781558497979
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher