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The Little Colonel: A Phenomenon In Popular Literary Culture, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
The Little Colonel: A Phenomenon In Popular Literary Culture, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
Written by Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931), a set of twelve novels published between 1895 and 1912, influenced thousands of readers to emulate the main character, Lloyd Sherman, and her chums. As the rise of the “New Woman” found multi¬tudes of southern women fearful that such change would threaten the stability of the home, impressionable young readers idealized the Old South and accepted the selfless values which Johnston taught through the Little Colonel series. Drawing upon both her own experiences and those of her devoted audience, Johnston recorded life as she knew it and provides modern read¬ers with insight into the …
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Inspired by the concept of culture as expressed in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, this dissertation traces the roots of modern perceptions of slavery and race by analyzing three sites each of which is associated with a distinct cultural pattern and social ideology. The first, Penshurst in Kent England is described as feudal, organic, vernacular, and popular. The second, Westover in tidewater Virginia is classical, rational, and elite. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the Virginia piedmont, the third site, is described as romantic, liberal, and bourgeois. It is only at this third site, the locus for a distinctly modern family type, …