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- catalog abstract ""Michael E. Price examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey of King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image of plantation economy and social structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance of literature as a mode of ideological communication. Even more significant, the book shows how the writing of one century shaped the development of social practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11389767.
- catalog coverage "Georgia In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Georgia Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Georgia Moral conditions.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Michael E. Price examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey of King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image of plantation economy and social structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance of literature as a mode of ideological communication. Even more significant, the book shows how the writing of one century shaped the development of social practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-378) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue. Georgia Scenes Revisited: Travels through the Backcountry of the Southern Literary Imagination in Search of Ideological Significance -- Pt. 1. In the Realm of King Cotton -- Ch. 1. Breaking New Ground: Traveler Perceptions of Antebellum Georgia -- Ch. 2. Tending the Rich Crop: The Georgia Humorists and the Literary Defense of Plantation Society -- Ch. 3. Lay-By Time: Plantation Society and the Literature of Domesticity -- Pt. 2. The Interregnum -- Ch. 4. A Harvest of Fire: Plantation Society at War -- Ch. 5. Reclaiming the Scorched Earth: Reconstruction and the Literary Response -- Pt. 3. The Restoration -- Ch. 6. Back in Tall Cotton: The New South or the Same Old South? -- Epilogue. A "November Cotton Flower": The Lost Cause Revival of the Plantation Regime.".
- catalog extent "xi, 394 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "082032132X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Georgia In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Georgia Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Georgia Moral conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Georgia".
- catalog spatial "Georgia.".
- catalog subject "810.9/9758/09034 21".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Georgia History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Homes and haunts Georgia.".
- catalog subject "Didactic literature, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Ethics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Georgia History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PS266.G4 P75 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue. Georgia Scenes Revisited: Travels through the Backcountry of the Southern Literary Imagination in Search of Ideological Significance -- Pt. 1. In the Realm of King Cotton -- Ch. 1. Breaking New Ground: Traveler Perceptions of Antebellum Georgia -- Ch. 2. Tending the Rich Crop: The Georgia Humorists and the Literary Defense of Plantation Society -- Ch. 3. Lay-By Time: Plantation Society and the Literature of Domesticity -- Pt. 2. The Interregnum -- Ch. 4. A Harvest of Fire: Plantation Society at War -- Ch. 5. Reclaiming the Scorched Earth: Reconstruction and the Literary Response -- Pt. 3. The Restoration -- Ch. 6. Back in Tall Cotton: The New South or the Same Old South? -- Epilogue. A "November Cotton Flower": The Lost Cause Revival of the Plantation Regime.".
- catalog title "Stories with a moral : literature and society in nineteenth-century Georgia / Michael E. Price.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".