Romances of the White Man's Burden Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Argues that many Southern writers in the U.S.--including William Faulkner, Henry W. Grady, Thomas Dixon, Thomas Nelson Page and more--viewed the Southern plantation not as a black mark, but instead as a symbol of Southerners adeptly taking on so-called "white man's burden."