Literature / M. Thomas Inge, volume editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Inge, M. Thomas, editor.

Series:

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 9.

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Southern States--Encyclopedias.

American literature.

Southern States--Intellectual life--Encyclopedias.

Southern States.

Southern States--In literature--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 511 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.

Contents:

Literature

African American literature

Agrarianism in literature

Appalachian literature

Autobiography and memoir

Biography

Blues literature

Civil rights in literature

Civil War in literature

Detective fiction

Folklore in literature

Food in literature

Fugitives and agrarians

Gender and sexuality in literature

Globalization and Southern literature

Humor

Indian literature

Nature writing and writers

New critics

North in literature

Periodicals

Poetry

Popular literature

Postcolonial Southern literature

Postsouthern literature

Publishing

Regionalism and local color

Religion and literature

Southern gothic

Theater, early

Theater, modern and contemporary

Travel writing.

James Agee

Conrad Aiken

James Lane Allen

Dorothy Allison

A.R. Ammons

Raymond Andrews

Tina McElroy Ansa

James Applewhite

Anne Wetzell Armstrong

Harriette Simpson Arnow

Ace Atkins

David Baldacci

John Barth

Frederick Barthelme

Rick Bass

Hamilton Basso

Richard Bausch

Madison Smartt Bell

Wendell Berry

Doris Betts

Joseph L. Blotner

Roy Blount, Jr.

Sherwood Bonner

Arna Bontemps

Roark Bradford

Rick Bragg

Henry Hershel Brickell

Cleanth Brooks

Larry Brown

Rita Mae Brown

Sterling Allen Brown

William Wells Brown

James Lee Burke

William Byrd, II

James Branch Cabell

George Washington Cable

Erskine Caldwell

Will D. Campbell

Truman Capote

W.J. Cash

Fred Chappell

Kelly Cherry

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Charles W. Chesnutt

Kate Chopin

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

David Cohn

Pat Conroy

Harry Crews

David Crockett (Davy)

Mart Crowley

Olive Tilford Dargan

Guy Davenport

Donald Davidson

Borden Deal

James Dickey

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

Ellen Douglas

Frederick Douglass

Rita Dove

W.E.B. Du Bois

Wilma Dykeman

Clyde Edgerton

Ralph Ellison

Augusta Jane Evans

Percival Everett

William Faulkner

Nikky Finney

Zelda Fitzgerald

John Gould Fletcher

Horton Foote

Shelby Foote

Jesse Hill Ford

Richard Ford

John Fox, Jr.

William Price Fox

John Hope Franklin

Tom Franklin

Charles Frazier

Ernest J. Gaines

Frances Ormond Jones

George Garrett

Tim Gautreaux

Kaye Gibbons

Ellen Gilchrist

Nikki Giovanni

Ellen Glasgow

Gail Godwin

Caroline Gordon

Shirley Ann Grau

Paul Green

Melissa Fay Greene

Jim Grimsley

John Grisham

Lewis Grizzard

Winston Groom

Anthony Grooms

Allan Gurganus

Alex Haley

Barry Hannah

Elizabeth Hardwick

Donald Harington

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

George Washington Harris

Joel Chandler Harris

Thomas Harris

Brooks Haxton

Lillian Hellman

Beth Henley

DuBose Heyward

Endesha Ida Mae Holland

C. Hugh Holman

Mary Hood

Johnson Jones Hooper

Jay Broadus Hubbell

Josephine Humphrey

Zora Neale Hurston

Blyden Jackson

Randall Jarrell

Thomas Jefferson

James Weldon Johnson

Mary Johnston

Madison Jones

Randal Kenan

John Pendleton Kennedy

Florence King

Grace King

Barbara Kingsolver

Etheridge Knight

Yusef Kommunyakaa

Sidney Lanier

Harper Lee

Henry Clay Lewis

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Grace Lumpkin

Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin

Andrew Lytle

David Madden

Jeff Daniel Marion

Doug Marlette

Bobbie Ann Mason

Cormac McCarthy

Jill McCorkle

Carson McCullers

H.L. Mencken

Jim Wayne Miller

Jason Milligan

Margaret Mitchell

Anne Moody

Robert Morgan

Willie Morris

Toni Morrison

Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)

Albert Murray

Frances Newman

Lewis Nordan

Flannery O'Connor

Guy Owen

Thomas Nelson Page

Walker Percy

William Alexander Percy

Julia Mood Peterkin

Jayne Anne Phillips

Edgar Allan Poe

Katherine Anne Porter

Charles Portis

Reynolds Price

Vance Randolph

John Crowe Ransom

Ron Rash

Janisse Ray

Ishmael Reed

John Shelton Reed

Mark Richard

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

Archibald Hamilton Rutledge

Dori Sanders

Evelyn Scott

James Seay

Mary Lee Settle

William Gilmore Simms

Lewis P. Simpson

Dave Smith

Lee Smith

Lillian Smith

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Frank Stanford

Darcey Steinke

James Still

James Street

T.S. Stribling

Jesse Hilton Stuart

Mary Routh (Ruth) McEnery Stuart

William Styron

Walter Sullivan

Allen Tate

Peter Taylor

Thomas Bangs Thorpe

Henry Timrod

John Kennedy Toole

Jean Toomer

Natasha Trethewey

Anne Tyler

Alice Walker

Margaret Walker

Robert Penn Warren

Booker T. Washington

Samuel Rush Watkins

Eudora Welty

James Wilcox

Ben Ames Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

C. Vann Woodward

Richard Wright

Steve Yarbrough

Frank Yerby

Al Young

Stark Young

Thomas Daniel Young.

Notes:

"Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908810-0-7

1-4696-1665-3

1-4696-1664-5

OCLC:

899261275