Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971

by Brannon Costello

Book Overview

In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy -- especially, those of racial paternalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132705
• ISBN13: 9780807132708
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"