Truthful pictures : slavery ordained by God in the domestic sentimental novel of the nineteenth-century South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Capitani, Diane N., 1943-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]
Subjects:	American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism. Slavery > Southern States > Justification. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Slavery > Southern States > History > 19th century. Slavery and the church > United States > History > 19th century. Fiction > Authorship > Psychological aspects. Southern States > Intellectual life > 19th century. Southern States > In literature. Slavery in literature.

Table of Contents:

The function of women writers in American history
The cult of true womanhood and the southern domestic novel
The nineteenth-century southern woman and the domestic novel
Slavery defended from Scripture: influences in the southern novel
Southern women writers: refuting the "Northern hussy" and defending slavery from Scriptures
Male voices in southern domestic fiction: politics as usual
Enlightening blighted Africa
Conclusion: a monstrous system.