William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / Benjamin E. Wise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wise, Benjamin E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Landowners--Mississippi--Greenville--Biography.

Landowners.

Plantation life--Mississippi--Greenville.

Plantation life.

Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942.

Percy, William Alexander.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story--his promi

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908850-6-7

979-88-9313-418-6

1-4696-0190-7

0-8078-6995-3

OCLC:

780371017