Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts (American South Series) [Hardcover]

Anne Goodwyn Jones (Editor), Susan V. Donaldson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0813917255 | ISBN-13: 978-0813917252

In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diversive as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.

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About the Author

Anne Goodwyn Jones is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. Susan V. Donaldson is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. Both have lectured and published widely on gender and the South.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 533 pages
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813917255
• ISBN-13: 978-0813917252
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,238,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent reference for students of Southern literature, April 23, 1999

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This review is from: Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts (American South (University or Virginia Press Paperback)) (Paperback)

Students of Southern literature will find this examination of race and gender in the South valuable.