- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Magnet South
- Part One: Nationalization—The Plantation South
- 1. The Problem of the Plantation
- 2. Putting the Colonial Past in Its Place
- 3. Domestic Possession and the Imperial Impulse
- 4. The Enemy Within
- Part Two: Industrialization and Expansion—The Slave South
- 5. Underwriting Free Labor and Free Soil
- 6. American Universal Geography
- 7. Dark Satanic Fields
- 8. The Masterwork of National Literature
- Part Three: The Question of Empire—The Reconstruction South
- 9. Abandoned Lands and Exceptional Empire
- 10. The Glory of Disaster
- 11. Internal Islands and the American Scene, 1898–1905
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Our South
Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature
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Publication Date: 10/15/2010
Awards & Accolades
- 2010 C. Hugh Holman Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature
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