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William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / Benjamin E. Wise.
Van Pelt Library PS3531.E65 Z98 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wise, Benjamin E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942.
- Percy, William Alexander.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Plantation life.
- Landowners.
- Mississippi--Greenville.
- Landowners--Mississippi--Greenville--Biography.
- Plantation life--Mississippi--Greenville.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: stories of belonging
- The stage of Southern history
- Childhood, remembered queerly
- Sewanee
- Southerner in Europe
- Harvard
- The senator's son
- On love, poetry, and war
- The soldier
- The native and nostalgic poet
- The Klan
- On god, sin, and the Mediterranean
- The flood and after
- Uncle Will
- Samoa, sharecropping, and race
- The autobiographer
- Epilogue: on sex, history, and trespassing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835357
- 0807835358
- OCLC:
- 754186771
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