"The Immoderate Past" deals with the southern writer's preoccupation with history, concentrating on representative novelists from three major periods. Finding the origins of this preoccupation in the antebellum period, when most American novelists wrote in the mode of Sir Walter Scott, C. Hugh Holman examines the Revolutionary romances of William Gilmore Simms. With the coming of realism to American fiction after the Civil War, the southern writer turned to a combination of the realistic method with the novel of manners in order to describe the way of life in the South during the nineteenth...
"The Immoderate Past" deals with the southern writer's preoccupation with history, concentrating on representative novelists from three major periods....
Within the general region designated as "The South," there are three societies only shadowily defined at their outer limits but distinct and sharp at their centers. In these essays C. Hugh Holman suggests ways in which race, geography, climate, and religion have contributed to the formation of these relatively definite sub-regions. He also shows that continuing literary traditions and social attitudes have shaped, qualified, and, to some extent, defined the artistic methods and forms which writers in these regions used. To demonstrate his thesis he has chosen Ellen Glasgow as spokesman for...
Within the general region designated as "The South," there are three societies only shadowily defined at their outer limits but distinct and sharp at ...
At the heart of the southern riddle you will find a union of opposites, a condition of instability, a paradox. Calm grace and raw hatred. Polished manners and violence. An intense individualism and intense group pressures toward conformity. A reverence to the point of idolatry of self-determining action and a caste and class structure presupposing an aristocratic hierarchy. A passion for political action and a willingness to surrender to the enslavement of demagogues. A love of the nation intense enough to make the South's fighting men notorious in our wars and the advocacy of...
At the heart of the southern riddle you will find a union of opposites, a condition of instability, a paradox. Calm grace and raw hatred. Polished ...
Thomas Wolfe - American Writers 6 was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Thomas Wolfe - American Writers 6 was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable ...
John P. Marquand - American Writers 46 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
John P. Marquand - American Writers 46 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavail...
The result of a conference held to assess the state of southern literary scholarship and to suggest new directions for research, this collection includes essays by Lewis D. Rubin Jr., Richard Beale Davis, Arlin Turner, Lewis P. Simpson, Cleanth Brooks, Blyden Jackson, Walter Sullivan, George Core, Charles T. Davis, Floyd C. Watkins, Carl Dolmetsch, Lewis Leary, Philip Butcher, Thomas Daniel Young, John C. Guilds, George Brown Tindall, Norman Brown, and Charles Ray.
Originally published in 1975.
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The result of a conference held to assess the state of southern literary scholarship and to suggest new directions for research, this collection inclu...
