Undead Souths

Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner

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• Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walki... Lees meer

The Starwick Episodes

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• One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wo... Lees meer

The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt

William L Andrews

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• The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to explain how and why Cha... Lees meer

Race, Theft, and Ethics

Lovalerie King

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• In Race, Theft, and Ethics , Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying par... Lees meer

The Burden of Southern History

C Vann Woodward

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• C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the int... Lees meer

Belles and Poets

Julia Nitz

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• In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made ... Lees meer

Scary Mason-Dixon Line

Trudier Harris

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• New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, an... Lees meer

Selected Stories from the Southern Review

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• In the twenty years of its existence, the second series of the Southern Review continued the editorial orientation of the first series by presenting a... Lees meer

In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee

Gordon C Rhea

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• In early May 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant initiated a drive through central Virginia to crush Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Norther... Lees meer

New Approaches to Gone with the Wind

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• Since its publication in 1936, Gone with the Wind has held a unique position in American cultural memory, both for its particular vision of the Americ... Lees meer

Leanne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature

Kirstin L Squint

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• With the publication of her first novel, Shell Shaker (2001), Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe quickly emerged as a crucial voice in twenty-first-century Am... Lees meer

Southern Comforts

Scott Romine, Alison Arant, John Stromski, Susan Zieger, Cara Koehler, Matthew Sutton, Caleb Doan, J. Gerald Kennedy

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• Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard--drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped sh... Lees meer

A Talent for Living

Barbara L Bellows

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• Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton... Lees meer

Kate Chopin Reconsidered

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• In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives--b... Lees meer

Domestic Novelists in the Old South

Elizabeth Moss

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• At a time when sectional conflicts were dividing the nation, the five best-selling southern domestic novelists vigorously came to the defense of their... Lees meer

Faulknerista

Catherine G Kodat

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• Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most impor... Lees meer

The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy

Vereen M Bell

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• Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the mo... Lees meer

Modernist Women Writers and War

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

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• In Modernist Women Writers and War , Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that d... Lees meer

Peter Taylor

Hubert Horton McAlexander

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• "Splendid. . . . McAlexander's biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters."-- Chicago Trib... Lees meer

The Real South

Scott Romine

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• In this stimulating study, Scott Romine explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of... Lees meer

Six Poets from the Mountain South

John Lang

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• In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne... Lees meer

Awakenings

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• One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complaine... Lees meer

The Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature

Tara Powell

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• Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In this thought-provoking contribution to the fiel... Lees meer

Narrative Forms of Southern Community

Scott Romine

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• In this succinct study, Scott Romine considers a key paradox that has been associated with the concept of "community" from the beginning of modern sou... Lees meer