Book contents
- Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Serial Novels
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Serial Novels
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Why Read More Southworth?
- Chapter 2 Stephens and the Serial Novel
- Chapter 3 Women in Nineteenth-Century Prisons
- Chapter 4 Mary Jane Holmes’s Spooneys, Crackers, and “White Niggers”
- Chapter 5 Laura Jean Libbey and Sexual Transformation
- Chapter 6 Racial Intimacy and Serial Novels
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent Books in this Series (continued from page ii)
Chapter 4 - Mary Jane Holmes’s Spooneys, Crackers, and “White Niggers”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2019
Book contents
- Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Serial Novels
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Serial Novels
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Why Read More Southworth?
- Chapter 2 Stephens and the Serial Novel
- Chapter 3 Women in Nineteenth-Century Prisons
- Chapter 4 Mary Jane Holmes’s Spooneys, Crackers, and “White Niggers”
- Chapter 5 Laura Jean Libbey and Sexual Transformation
- Chapter 6 Racial Intimacy and Serial Novels
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent Books in this Series (continued from page ii)
Summary
Chapter 4 details Mary Jane Holmes’s mistrust of “family pride” and her contention that “work” – of any sort – will challenge spoonery, crackerhood, and “white trash” dysgenics (her terms for national disruptions).
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- Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels , pp. 68 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019