Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies [electronic resource] : Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production /
Seltzer, C.author.
This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Backward Glances and Forward Thinking: Reconsidering Elizabeth Spencer; 1 "A Sure Terrain": Spencer's Mississippi Novels; 2 Exploding the Can(n)on: The Light in the Piazza; 3 Inhabiting the Unhomely Moment in Jack of Diamonds and Other Stories; 4 "Radical" Re-Envisionings of Home: The Night Travellers; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.
Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.