The Fourth Ghost

Robert H Brinkmeyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial "ghosts" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with who... Lees meer

River Road Rambler

Mary Ann Sternberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann Sternberg has spent ove... Lees meer

The Starwick Episodes

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume three, provides an indispensable glimpse of Warren the writer and the man, covering a crucial decade in... Lees meer

Undead Souths

Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Race, Theft, and Ethics

Lovalerie King

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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 Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt

William L Andrews

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

The Burden of Southern History

C Vann Woodward

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Reconstructing Violence

Deborah E Barker

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the south, Deborah E. Barker explores the ongoing legacy of the "southern rape complex" in A... Lees meer

Belles and Poets

Julia Nitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

New Approaches to Gone with the Wind

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Calls and Responses

Tim A Ryan

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery an... Lees meer

In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee

Gordon C Rhea

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Reclaiming the American Farmer

Mary Weaks-Baxter

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• In this stimulating study, Mary Weaks-Baxter views the Southern Renaissance, 1900--1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began con... Lees meer

The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren

James H. Justus

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• Robert Penn Warren was unique among twentieth-century American writers for having achieved excellence in a broad and assorted range of genres: poems, ... Lees meer

Selected Stories from the Southern Review

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 2

Robert Penn Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• At the beginning of 1935, Robert Penn Warren was destined for arguably the most crucial period in his distinguished career. Having escaped the brink o... Lees meer

Leanne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature

Kirstin L Squint

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Scary Mason-Dixon Line

Trudier Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Kate Chopin Reconsidered

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

Robert Penn Warren After Audubon

Joseph R Millichap

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• Despite nearly universal critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the... Lees meer

Southern Comforts

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

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• 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