Originally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, Swallow Barn is a novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, described by the author as "variously and interchangeably partaking of the complexion of a book of travels, a diary, a collection of letters, a drama, and a history."
Originally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, Swallow Barn is a novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, described by the auth...
"This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else." --Thomas Daniel Young
Many southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained the glow of the golden land as a device to expose or rebuke, to confront or escape the complexities of the actual times in which they lived.
The Dream of Arcady examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner or later in all...
"This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive comment...
There are many competing anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian era to the present, referencing specific works of all periods and genres.
Read its copious offerings straight through in alphabetical order (Ancestor Worship, Blue-Collar Literature, Caves) or skip randomly at whim (Guilt, The Grotesque, William Jefferson Clinton). Whatever approach you take, The Companion's authority,...
There are many competing anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sour...
Drawing upon letters, autobiographies, and novels, "Daughters of Time" examines the strategies that various southern women writers have used to create their own "voice," their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. Lucinda H. MacKethan shows that, despite the constraining and muting effects of the South's historically patriarchal society, the region has been graced by the remarkably strong presence of women storytellers, black and white, who have asserted their determination to become themselves through creative acts of voicing.
Within a chronological structure, MacKethan examines...
Drawing upon letters, autobiographies, and novels, "Daughters of Time" examines the strategies that various southern women writers have used to cre...
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"Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South" is a fictional reconstruction of antebellum life in the historic Midway community of Liberty County, Georgia, home of some of the Old South s wealthiest planters. Originally published in 1898, this blend of fiction and memoir looks through the eyes of a white plantation mistress at her family plantation, her marriage, slave life, and the destruction of the plantation economy that took place when Sherman s army arrived in December 1864.
Writing in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe s "Uncle Tom s Cabin," Eugenia J. Bacon sought to represent plantation life...
"Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South" is a fictional reconstruction of antebellum life in the historic Midway community of Liberty County, Georgia, home...
Recollections of a Southern Daughter recalls life in antebellum Liberty County, Georgia, a time and place best known today through the letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family, published in the classic Children of Pride, and the letters and journals of the Roswell King, Fanny Kemble, and Joseph LeConte families. In this memoir Cornelia Jones Pond gives an eyewitness account of how the privileged life of the southern slaveholding class was destroyed by a whirlwind of change.
Pond's narrative begins in 1834, when she was born to one of the Old South's wealthiest...
Recollections of a Southern Daughter recalls life in antebellum Liberty County, Georgia, a time and place best known today through the lette...
