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The roots of Southern writing;, essays on the literature of the American South, [by] C. Hugh Holman

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The roots of Southern writing;, essays on the literature of the American South, [by] C. Hugh Holman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The roots of Southern writing;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

509270

Responsibility statement

[by] C. Hugh Holman

Sub title

essays on the literature of the American South

Table Of Contents

The Southerner as American writer.--Simms and the wider world: Views and reviews.--William Gilmore Simms's picture of the Revolution as a civil war.--The influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms.--Simms and the British dramatists.--William Gilmore Simms and the American Renaissance.--The novel in the South.--The view from the Regency Hyatt.--Ellen Glasgow: the novelist of manners as social critic.--The dark, ruined Helen of his blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South.--The loneliness at the core.--Europe as catalyst for Thomas Wolfe.--The unity of Faulkner's Light in August.--Absalom, Absalom! The historian as detective.--Her rue with a difference.--Literature and culture: the fugitive-agrarians.--Three views of the real

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