남북의 체제 충돌과 유혹의 다층구조: 캐롤라인 헨츠의 『농장주의 북부 출신 신부』와 반톰소설(Anti-Tom novel)의 정치학

• 영문명: Multiple Layers of Seduction in the North-South Conflict: The Politics of the Anti-Tom Novel in Caroline Lee Hentz’s : The Planter’s Northern Bride
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 이동환(Dong-hwan Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제57집 2호, 127~158쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.09.30

국문 초록

This study investigates how the seduction motif—originally depicting a masculine, corrupt England violating a feminized, innocent America—is appropriated in Caroline Lee Hentz’s _The Planter’s Northern Bride_, a representative anti-Tom novel. Hentz employs the figure of the Northern confidence man (con-man), disguised as a pastor, to incite rebellion among enslaved people on a Southern plantation, promising freedom and prosperity in the North. This intrusion destabilizes the plantation community, drawing its members—slaveholders, women, and slaves—into complex layers of mutual seduction and deception. Through the reassertion of a divinely sanctioned covenant of hierarchical order, the benevolent planter restores stability. Exposing the confidence man’s deceit, he calls for sectional reconciliation based on shared Christian values, while warning against abolitionism as a divisive force. Ultimately, the novel upholds the moral legitimacy of Southern slavery under paternalism, portraying abolition as a threat to national unity rather than a path to justice.

목차

1. 서론: 반톰소설과 유혹의 주제

II. 남부 체제 옹호론: 체제 충돌의 논쟁적 소환

III. 남부 체제의 이면: 유혹의 중층구조

IV. 기독교적 자비와 체제 화합의 비전

V. 결론: 반톰소설의 정치학과 시대적 의미

인용문헌

키워드

캐롤라인 헨츠 유혹의 모티프 반톰소설 사기꾼 노예제 미국 남북 갈등 Caroline Hentz seduction motif confidence man anti-Tom novel slavery sectional conflict in Antebellum America

참고문헌

• 근대영미소설
• 안과밖
• New Perspectives on Imagology
• The Southern Literary Journal
• Studies in American Fiction
• The Mississippi Quarterly
• ELH
• The Cambridge History of the American Novel
• The Southern Quarterly
• The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
• Mississippi Quarterly
• The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
• International Social Science Review
• The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860
• The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South
• The Journal of Narrative Technique
• Diss. U. of Warwick