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- Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Riffraff and Half-Strainers
- Chapter 2 Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins
- Chapter 3 Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites
- Chapter 4 Hungry Women and Horny Men
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent books in this series (continued from page ii)
- References
Bibliography
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Book contents
- Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Riffraff and Half-Strainers
- Chapter 2 Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins
- Chapter 3 Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites
- Chapter 4 Hungry Women and Horny Men
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent books in this series (continued from page ii)
- References
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