{"product_id":"cavaliers-and-economists-global-capitalism-and-the-development-of-southern-literature-1820-1860-9780807169308","title":"Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine A. Burnett's \u003ci\u003eCavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860\u003c\/i\u003e examines how popular modes of literary production in the South emerged in tandem with the region's economic modernization. In a series of deeply historicized readings, Burnett positions southern literary form and genre as existing in dialogue with the plantation economy's evolving position in the transatlantic market before the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The antebellum southern economy comprised part of a global network of international commerce driven by a version of \u003ci\u003elaissez-faire\u003c\/i\u003e liberal capitalism that championed unrestricted trade and individual freedom to pursue profit. Yet the economy of the U.S. South consisted of large-scale plantations that used slave labor to cultivate staple crops, including cotton. Each individual plantation functioned as a racially and socially repressive community, a space that seemingly stood apart from the international economic networks that fueled southern capitalism. For writers from the South, fiction became a way to imagine the region as socially and culturally progressive, while still retaining hallmarks of \"traditional\" southern culture--namely plantation slavery--in the context of a rapidly changing global economy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Burnett excavates an elaborate network of transatlantic literary exchange, operating concurrently with the region's economic expansion, in which southern writers adopted popular British genres, such as the historical romance and the seduction novel, as models for their own representations of the U.S. South. Each chapter focuses on a different genre, pairing largely under-studied southern texts with well-known British works. Ranging from the humorous sketch to the imperial adventure tale and the social problem novel, \u003ci\u003eCavaliers and Economists\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how southern writers like Augusta Jane Evans, Johnson Jones Hooper, Maria McIntosh, William Gilmore Simms, and George Tucker reworked familiar literary forms to reinvent the South through fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy considering the intersection of economic history and literary genre, \u003ci\u003eCavaliers and Economists\u003c\/i\u003e provides an expansive study of the means by which authors created southern literature in relation to global free market capitalism, showing that, in the process, they renegotiated and rejustified the institution of slavery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katharine Burnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 9.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807169308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatharine A. Burnett\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at Fisk University, where she also coordinates the gender studies program.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40161609023603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_762e338d-87d2-4ed6-966e-83b417f5d6be.jpg?v=1654955204","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/cavaliers-and-economists-global-capitalism-and-the-development-of-southern-literature-1820-1860-9780807169308","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}