Title: The History of Southern literature /
Authors: Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923-; Rubin, Louis D., 1923-2013.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 1985
Subjects: American literature Southern States History and criticism; Authors, American Homes and haunts Southern States; Southern States In literature.; Southern States Intellectual life.
Contents: 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.