The house of Percy : honor, melancholy, and imagination in a southern family / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--Southern States--Biography.

Authors, American.

Intellectuals--Southern States--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Percy family.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.

Percy, Walker.

Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942.

Percy, William Alexander.

Dorsey, Sarah A. (Sarah Anne), 1829-1879.

Dorsey, Sarah A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Twocenturies of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition. In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this g

Contents:

Contents; PROLOGUE: The Brooding Knight; PART ONE: The Early Male Percys; PART TWO: The Female Line; PART THREE: The Greenville Percys; PART FOUR: Fiction, Legend, and Lineage; APPENDICES: Genealogical Charts; A Selected List of Manuscript Collections; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-19-510982-1

1-4294-0686-0

1-280-52916-4

0-19-802230-1

OCLC:

476013594