Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

ISBN: 9781107618909 出版年：2014 页码：332 Sarah N Roth Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. 'The old child and the young one': the infantilization of male slaves in 1820s' juvenile literature 2. 'More terrible than the uncaged hyena': the savage slave in 1830s' fiction 3. 'How a slave was made a man': manly self-defense in 1840s' slave narratives 4. 'Patient sufferer, gentle martyr': the self-sacrifical Uncle Tom 5. Impotent rebels, heroes, and martyrs: anti-Uncle Tom novels of the 1850s 6. 'An intrepid, dauntless heroine': the displacement of black men in 1850s' octoroon novels 7. 'We have struck for our freedom': the black revolutionary in 1850s' radical abolitionist fiction 8. 'Victory!': The soldier-martyr in Civil War fiction Epilogue.