Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
Antebellum Southern literature and twentieth-century criticism -- The progressive beginnings of Southern historical romance : James Heath's Edge-hill -- Copying what the master had written : Frederick Douglass's romance of the heroic slave -- Monsters in the Old South : Edgar Allan Poe's horror fiction as anti-romance -- Resisting the romance : genre struggle in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn -- Revising the romantic plantation : E.D.E.N. Southworth's Abolitionist project