Southern Writers and Their Worlds

ISBN 10: 0807122742 / ISBN 13: 9780807122747

Verlag: LSU Press, 1998

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Inhaltsangabe:

In this brilliant collection, five historians and literary critics explore the many ways that southern writers influence and are influenced by their region. Christopher Morris examines the relationship between economic development and the humor of such “Old Southwestern” writers as Augustus B. Longstreet and Johnson Jones Hooper, while Susan A. Eacker explains how South Carolina author Louisa McCord came to defend slavery. Anne Goodwyn Jones offers a penetrating deconstruction of gender in the southern literary renaissance, Charles Joyner reassesses William Styron’s controversial decision to write The Confessions of Nat Turner in the first person, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown reveals the connection between depression and literary creativity. Presenting interdisciplinary topics within a broad chronological range, this remarkable work will be of interest to all students of southern literature and history.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Christopher Morris is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington and author of Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860.

Steven G. Reinhardt, author of Justice in the Sarladais, 1770–1790, is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Southern Writers and Their Worlds
Verlag: LSU Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good