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The History of Southern literature / general editor, Louis D. Rubin, Jr. ; senior editors Blyden Jackson, Rayburn S. Moore, Lewis P. Simpson, Thomas Daniel Young ; associate editor Mary Ann Wimsatt ; managing editor Robert L. Phillips.
LIBRA PS261 .H53 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Southern States.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Southern States--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 626 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge ; London : Louisiana State University Press, [1985]
- Summary:
- The History of Southern Literature explores every facet of southern writing, including the works themselves, their authors and readers, literary trends, cultural movements, and political and economic influences. The extraordinary depth and scope of this monumental work--and its capacity to delight as well as instruct--make the book invaluable to anyone interested in southern letters.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Colonial and antebellum Southern literature, 1607-1860. The beginnings ; Captain John Smith / J.A. Leo Lemay
- Literature in the eighteenth-century colonial South / Robert D. Arner
- William Byrd of Westover / Robert Bain
- The ideology of revolution / Lewis P. Simpson
- 1776-1815 / Lewis Leary
- The old South, 1815-1840 / Craig Werner
- Antebellum fiction ; William Gilmore Simms / Mary Ann Wimsatt
- Antebellum poetry / Rayburn S. Moore
- Edgar Allan Poe / Robert D. Jacobs
- Antebellum humor / Mary Ann Wimsatt and Robert L. Phillips
- Literary magazines in the old South / Richard J. Calhoun
- The mind of the antebellum South / Lewis P. Simpson
- pt. 2. The war and after, 1861-1920. The Civil War and authorship / Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
- Poetry of the late nineteenth century / Rayburn S. Moore
- Local color in Louisiana / Thomas Richardson
- Plantation fiction, 1865-1900 / Lucinda H. Mackethan
- Varieties of local color / Merrill Maguire Skaggs
- Kate Chopin / Anne Rowe
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
- Henry W. Grady and the new South / Dewey W. Grantham
- Humor, romance, and realism at the turn of the century / Wayne Mixon
- The rise of the critical temper / Fred Hobson.
- pt. 3. The Southern renascence, 1920-1950. The ambivalent heart : literary revival in Richmond / Edgar E. MacDonald
- Fiction in the 1920s : some new voices / Joseph M. Flora
- Southern standard-bearers in the new Negro Renaissance / Thadious M. Davis
- The new poetry / Mark Royden Winchell
- The fugitives : Ransom, Davidson, Tate / Thomas Daniel Young
- William Faulkner / Cleanth Brooks
- Thomas Wolfe / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
- The fiction of social commitment / James Mellard
- The memory of the war / John Pilkington
- Gone with the wind and others : popular fiction, 1920-1950 / Anne Goodwyn Jones
- The passion of craft / M.E. Bradford
- Black novelists and novels, 1930-1950 / Lee Greene
- Regions and rebels / Herschel Gower
- Editors and critics / Thomas Daniel Young
- The search for identity / William C. Havard
- The Agrarians / Thomas Daniel Young
- Modern Southern drama / Jacob H. Adler
- Richard Wright / Blyden Jackson
- Robert Penn Warren / James H. Justus.
- pt. 4. The recent South, 1951-1982. A second generation of novelists / Thomas Daniel Young
- Eudora Welty / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
- James Agee / David Marion Holman
- William Styron / Lewis A. Lawson
- Truman Capote / Thomas Bonner, Jr.
- Carson McCullers / Joseph R. Millichap
- Flannery O'Connor / Louise Y. Gossett
- Peter Taylor / David Marion Holman
- Elizabeth Spencer / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
- Shelby Foote / Robert L. Phillips
- Walker Percy / Lewis A. Lawson
- Ralph W. Ellison ; Ernest J. Gaines / Theodore R. Hudson
- John Barth / Lewis A. Lawson
- Reynolds Price / Michael Kreyling
- Madison Jones / M.E. Bradford
- Old ways and new ways / Martha E. Cook
- Poets after midcentury / James H. Justus
- Randall Jarrell / William Harmon
- James Dickey / Richard J. Calhoun
- Archie Randolph Ammons / William Harmon
- Black writers in a changed landscape, since 1950 / Trudier Harris
- The future of Southern writing / Donald R. Noble
- The study of Southern literature / M. Thomas Inge
- The black academy and Southern literature / Blyden Jackson.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 589-599.
- Local Notes:
- Storage copy is gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0807112518 :
- 9780807112519
- 0807116432
- 9780807116432
- OCLC:
- 12049940
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