Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144) and index
The function of women writers in American history -- The cult of true womanhood and the southern domestic novel -- The nineteenth-century southern woman and the domestic novel -- Slavery defended from Scripture: influences in the southern novel -- Southern women writers: refuting the "Northern hussy" and defending slavery from Scriptures -- Male voices in southern domestic fiction: politics as usual -- Enlightening blighted Africa -- Conclusion: a monstrous system
