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Article: Vanquished by a different set of rules: Labor vs. Leisure in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!(Critical essay)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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SCHOLARS OF ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN CULTURE, AS JOHN B. BOLES POINTS out, have only recently begun to examine the notion that "the southern white population consisted of more than planters and poor white trash" (x). Boles observes that "we are now in the ironical situation of knowing far more about the slaves--and the elite white planter class--than we know about the majority population group of the Old South" (x). Unfortunately, as Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., explains, "the role and relevance of the common white people remains among the most misinterpreted aspects of antebellum southern society ... they remain the least-studied subset of the southern population" ("Plain Folk ...
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