Lexington Books
Pages: 156
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-1232-8 • Hardback • March 2009 • $92.00 • (£65.00)
Diane N. Capitani is supervisor of the writing center at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Function of Women Writers in American History
Chapter 3 The Cult of True Womanhood and the Southern Domestic Novel
Chapter 4 The 19th Century Southern Woman and the Domestic Novel
Chapter 5 Slavery Defended from Scripture: Influences in the Southern Novel
Chapter 6 Southern Women Writers: Refuting the "Northern Hussy" and Defending Slavery from Scripture
Chapter 7 Male Voices in Southern Domestic Fiction: Politics as Usual
Chapter 8 Enlightening Blighted Africa
Chapter 9 Conclusion: A Monstrous System
The book's main virtues are its detailed summaries of literary works that are hard to obtain and often painful to read….she has given us a detailed historical portrait of some major dynamics of our own homegrown social sin, the effects of which are still diminishing and destroying lives nearly 160 years later.
— Theological Studies, June 1, 2010