Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial times to the present.
The volume is, in part, a companion to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., ed.), a work that has become a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the literature of the South. With its wealth of essential...
Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars...
In 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin. Seyersted's presentation of Chopin's writings and biographical and bibliographical information led to the rediscovery and celebration of this turn-of-the-century author. Newsweek hailed the two-volume opus -- "In story after story and in all her novels, Kate Chopin's oracular feminism and prophetic psychology almost outweigh her estimable literary talents. Her revival is both interesting and timely." Now for the first time, Seyersted'sComplete Works is available in a single-volume paperback. It is the first and...
In 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin. Seyersted's presentation of Chopin's writings and biographical and ...
In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region -- some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they -- in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South -- produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow...
In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge t...
In A Certain Slant of Light, David Marion Holman examines two prolific regional American literatures - those of the South and the Midwest - from about 1832 to 1925. By focusing on the role history played in the imaginations of selected writers of that period, he seeks to answer a perennial question: What is "midwestern" about midwestern literature, and what is "southern" about southern literature? At least until 1910, Holman says, the fiction of the two regions was characterized by two very different modes - romance in the South and social realism in the Midwest. For the southerner, the past...
In A Certain Slant of Light, David Marion Holman examines two prolific regional American literatures - those of the South and the Midwest - from about...
Weston (English, Oral Roberts U.) probes Welty's work to reveal the writer's close relationship to the gothic tradition (as distinguished from the gothic genre). Specifically, she shows how Welty employs the themes of enclosure and escape and settings that convey a sense of mystery gothic adaptation
Weston (English, Oral Roberts U.) probes Welty's work to reveal the writer's close relationship to the gothic tradition (as distinguished from the got...
The first full realization of the family saga in the southern tradition, Stephens says, was George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1880). Stephens gives an extensive tour of twentieth-century authors who have used and further developed the southern family saga. He examines the works of writers such as T. S. Stribling and William Faulkner, who after the First World War reinterpreted the Civil War and its consequences in terms of a displaced inheritance; Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, and Andrew Lytle, who built on the displacement motif to show family decline; Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora...
The first full realization of the family saga in the southern tradition, Stephens says, was George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1880). Stephen...
In the 1970s and 1980s, two Emory U. professors took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi to explore the region where William Faulkner lived, with William Faulkner's nephew serving as guide and story-teller. This volume recreates the details of Faulkner's life and the era
In the 1970s and 1980s, two Emory U. professors took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi to explore the region where Will...
This study offers an analysis of six novels in which Turner figured prominently. All of the novelists, the author argues, derive their fundamental understanding about Turner from Thomas Gray's seminal work, The Confessions of Nat Turner, but they recreate it in their own image.
This study offers an analysis of six novels in which Turner figured prominently. All of the novelists, the author argues, derive their fundamental und...
