The Construction of Womanhood and Race in Novels by Caroline Lee Hentz and Augusta Jane Evans

Author

Elizabeth L. Oliphant

Date of Award

2008

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Southern Studies

First Advisor

Kathryn McKee

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

This thesis explores the development of racial and gender stereotypes in four novels: Caroline Lee Hentz’s Eoline and The Planter’s Northern Bride, and Augusta Jane Evans’s Beulah and Macaria. In identifying the formation of these stereotypes, this paper suggests that Hentz and Evans were contributing to the formation of Southern identity, and that their works were at the crux of the formation of a Southern social construct.

Recommended Citation

Oliphant, Elizabeth L., "The Construction of Womanhood and Race in Novels by Caroline Lee Hentz and Augusta Jane Evans" (2008). Honors Theses. 2083.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2083

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