The History of Southern literature
| Other Authors: | Rubin, Louis D., Jr. 1923-2013. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[1985]
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 626 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-599) and index. pt. 1. Colonial and antebellum Southern literature, 1607-1860. The beginnings ; Captain John Smith / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Literature in the eighteenth-century colonial South / Robert D. Arner -- William Byrd of Westover / Robert Bain -- The ideology of revolution / Lewis P. Simpson -- 1776-1815 / Lewis Leary -- The old South, 1815-1840 / Craig Werner -- Antebellum fiction ; William Gilmore Simms / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- Antebellum poetry / Rayburn S. Moore -- Edgar Allan Poe / Robert D. Jacobs -- Antebellum humor / Mary Ann Wimsatt and Robert L. Phillips -- Literary magazines in the old South / Richard J. Calhoun -- The mind of the antebellum South / Lewis P. Simpson -- pt. 2. The war and after, 1861-1920. The Civil War and authorship / Elisabeth Muhlenfeld -- Poetry of the late nineteenth century / Rayburn S. Moore -- Local color in Louisiana / Thomas Richardson -- Plantation fiction, 1865-1900 / Lucinda H. Mackethan -- Varieties of local color / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Kate Chopin / Anne Rowe -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Henry W. Grady and the new South / Dewey W. Grantham -- Humor, romance, and realism at the turn of the century / Wayne Mixon -- The rise of the critical temper / Fred Hobson. pt. 3. The Southern renascence, 1920-1950. The ambivalent heart : literary revival in Richmond / Edgar E. MacDonald -- Fiction in the 1920s : some new voices / Joseph M. Flora -- Southern standard-bearers in the new Negro Renaissance / Thadious M. Davis -- The new poetry / Mark Royden Winchell -- The fugitives : Ransom, Davidson, Tate / Thomas Daniel Young -- William Faulkner / Cleanth Brooks -- Thomas Wolfe / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- The fiction of social commitment / James Mellard -- The memory of the war / John Pilkington -- Gone with the wind and others : popular fiction, 1920-1950 / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- The passion of craft / M.E. Bradford -- Black novelists and novels, 1930-1950 / Lee Greene -- Regions and rebels / Herschel Gower -- Editors and critics / Thomas Daniel Young -- The search for identity / William C. Havard -- The Agrarians / Thomas Daniel Young -- Modern Southern drama / Jacob H. Adler -- Richard Wright / Blyden Jackson -- Robert Penn Warren / James H. Justus. pt. 4. The recent South, 1951-1982. A second generation of novelists / Thomas Daniel Young -- Eudora Welty / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- James Agee / David Marion Holman -- William Styron / Lewis A. Lawson -- Truman Capote / Thomas Bonner, Jr. -- Carson McCullers / Joseph R. Millichap -- Flannery O'Connor / Louise Y. Gossett -- Peter Taylor / David Marion Holman -- Elizabeth Spencer / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- Shelby Foote / Robert L. Phillips -- Walker Percy / Lewis A. Lawson -- Ralph W. Ellison ; Ernest J. Gaines / Theodore R. Hudson -- John Barth / Lewis A. Lawson -- Reynolds Price / Michael Kreyling -- Madison Jones / M.E. Bradford -- Old ways and new ways / Martha E. Cook -- Poets after midcentury / James H. Justus -- Randall Jarrell / William Harmon -- James Dickey / Richard J. Calhoun -- Archie Randolph Ammons / William Harmon -- Black writers in a changed landscape, since 1950 / Trudier Harris -- The future of Southern writing / Donald R. Noble -- The study of Southern literature / M. Thomas Inge -- The black academy and Southern literature / Blyden Jackson. |
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 626 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-599) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0807112518 9780807112519 0807116432 9780807116432 |