Gwen Bristow's best sellers had all but disappeared from bookshelves, libraries, and the memories of American readers until recently when several of her more popular historical novels were reissued. Although some of Bristow's novels are available, her most important work, a three-part series that would eventually be called The Plantation Trilogy, has been largely ignored by scholars. Yet, of particular import are the ways in which Bristow uses the genre of the historical novel to further an agenda that gives insight into several important issues of her own time, the 1930s. Bristow sets her narratives in previous time periods to address the needs of the Great Depression era from a safe distance. She is specifically concerned with how people can and do cope with the Depression, how the South is defining itself culturally and regionally, and how the changing roles of women are informed by the ideology of Progressivism.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04052013-130106 |
| Date | 05 April 2013 |
| Creators | Bauer-Krueger, Jennifer Danae |
| Contributors | Sarah Robbins, David Vanderwerken, Clayton Brown |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04052013-130106/ |
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