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title	:	In the Master's Eye : Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature
author	:	Tracy, Susan Jean.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870239686
print isbn13	:	9780870239687
ebook isbn13	:	9780585186887
language	:	English
subject	American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, Literature and society--Southern States--History--19th century, Women and literature--Southern States--History--19th century, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, American l
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS261.T73 1995eb
ddc	:	810.9/975
subject	:	American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, Literature and society--Southern States--History--19th century, Women and literature--Southern States--History--19th century, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, American l

Page iii In the Master's Eye Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature Susan J. Tracy University of Massachusetts Press Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1995 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved LC 94-49536 ISBN 0-87023-968-6 Designed by Susan Bishop Set in Poppl-Pontifex by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tracy, Susan Jean, 1947 In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature / Susan J. Tracy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87023-968-6 1. American literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2. Literature and societySouthern StatesHistory19th century. 3. Women and literatureSouthern StatesHistory19th century. 4. American literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 5. American literatureMen authorsHistory and criticism. 6. Working class whites in literature. 7. Southern StatesIn literature. 8. Afro-Americans in literature. 9. Social classes in literature. 10. Patriarchy in literature. 11. Poor in literature. I. Title. PS261.T73 1995 810.9'975dc2094-49536 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page v CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 I. The Antebellum South and the Production of Southern Literature 1. The Antebellum South 9 2. The Production of Southern Literature 20 3. The Form of Southern Literature 33 4. The Genesis of the "Plantation Novel," 47 II. Representations of Women 5. Representing Southern Women's Lives 69 6. Unmarried Women: The "Belle," Passive Sufferer versus Spirited Woman 75 7. Unmarried Women: The "Spinster" and the "Fallen Woman," 91 8. Married Woman: Mothers 105 9. Widows 126 III. Representations of Blacks 10. Slavery: The "Patriarchal" Institution 141 11. The Master-Slave Relationship: Individual Portraits of Slaves 151 IV. Representations of Poor Whites 12. The Problem of Class in Southern Society and Southern Literature 177 13. Representations of Poor Whites 185 14. The Problem of the Yeoman Farmer 197 Conclusion 213 Appendix 219 Notes 223 Bibliography 273 Index 297

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book would not have been written without the encouragement and support of a number of people. Primary are those who kept me employed during the dismal decade of the eighties, when so many of my comrades were forced out of academia. My thanks to the members of the Schools of Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts at Hampshire College, and to the faculty in the Women's studies department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for their continued support. My gratitude as well to Adele Simmons, former president, and Penina Glazer, former dean of faculty of Hampshire College. My gratitude extends to Joseph Duffey former chancellor at the University of Massachusetts, whose generosity and kindness I will always treasure. The ideas in this book developed over more than a decade as I approached the study of gender, race, and class in American culturefirst as a student and then as a professor. Listing those people who have had an intellectual influence on me hardly seems an adequate tribute, but it will have to suffice. Robert Stanfield, Mason Lowance, Sidney Kaplan, Milton Cantor, Leonard Richards, and Stephen B. Oates of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, originally inspired my interest in American studies, the nineteenth century, and African American history; Paul Boyer and Henry Steele Commager sharpened my sense of history as an imaginative and critical discipline; Paul Worthman, Alexander Saxton, Gary Nash, and Temma Kaplan directed my initial studies in social, women's, and labor history and Marxist theory at the University of California at Los Angeles; Robert Padgug, Phillip Greven, Judith Walkowitz, Daniel Walkowitz, Tilden Edelstein, Paul Clemens, and the late Warren Susman of Rutgers University, trained me as a historian. Many of these people are recognized as distinguished scholars; they are also exceptional teachers whose enthusiasm and dedication to their students have been an inspiration.

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