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The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression - Southern Literary Studies Ashley Craig Lancaster
The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression - Southern Literary Studies
Ashley Craig Lancaster
Examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruistic maternal figures and destructive sexual deviants.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 20, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807144459 |
| Publishers | Louisiana State University Press |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 225 × 148 × 21 mm · 422 g |
| Language | English |