The fugitive legacy : a critical history / Charlotte H. Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beck, Charlotte H., 1937-

Series:

Southern literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fugitives (Group).

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

American literature.

Southern States.

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.

Intellectual life.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Southern States--In literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Previously, the protégés of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren have received considerable scholarly attention only as individuals or in relation to small groups of close-knit writers within single literary genres. Now, for the first time, this far-ranging group of accomplished writers is united as part of a larger phenomenon, the Fugitive legacy, which has extended its influence far beyond the parameters of southern literature. In The Fugitive Legacy, Charlotte H. Beck demonstrates the strong influence of the Nashville Fugitives as teachers, editors, and mentors by examining the extraordinary impact on American letters of the critics, poets, and fiction writers whom they taught or sponsored. By treating the careers of these brilliant authors as a single chapter in literary history, Beck makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of southern literature. The cultural importance of the Fugitives has too often been confused with the narrow politics of Agrarianism and relegated to a reactionary piety for regionalism and dead tradition. The Fugitive Legacy fills a void in southern literary theory by revealing the resounding echo of this group's voice in modern American literature.

Contents:

Tale of three cities

Editorial legacy

Cleanth Brooks, the New Criticism, and the new pedagogy

Post-Fugitive poetry

Randall Jarrell: the precocious pupil

John Berryman, the Southern review, and Five young American poets

Robert Lowell: an underlying sense of form

Fugitives and fiction

Andrew Lytle: Fugitive art in Agrarian fiction

Caroline Gordon: fiction in the family

Katherine Anne Porter: a gift for friendship

Eudora Welty: the "generosity" of strangers

Peter Taylor and the Fugitives: surrogate fathers, foster son

Flannery O'Connor: the last direct legatee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-285) and index.

ISBN:

0807125903

OCLC:

44425473